Re: gnus-*-mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

engstrom@src.honeywell.com (Eric Engstrom) writes:

> Not to make the job any more difficult, but how about working with
> the mh-e folks and merge in the stuff from mh-send (mh-comp.el).

Well, that's an idea...

... but too late!  This is the first message composed in a
message-mode buffer.  Seems to be working OK.

gnus-msg.el shrunk from 107k to 30k while sendmail.el (which turned
into message.el) grew from 39k to 68k.  (And rnewspost.el was 17k and
is totally obsolete now.)  That's a savings of 65k.  :-)  

You now don't have to start Gnus at all to send news.  message.el does
it all -- you can for instance go to a random message file and just
`C-u M-x message-forward' to forward the message using news.

But I should probably get in touch with the mh-e & VM people to see
whether a merger might be worked out...

> While you are at it, I can provide a quick hack to allow completion of
> addresses on From:, CC:, etc, lines; it gets completion values from a
> variety of sources including .mailrc, /etc/aliases and YP/NIS aliases.

That sounds interesting.  There is already a mailalias.el file, but I
don't quite know what that one offers...  

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