bug#37078: 27.0.50; Proposal: new introductory section to the Gnus manual

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I'll post this to gnus.general in a second, as well.
>
> Looks good to me, but:
>
>>   Mail message composition starts with “m” in the *Group* buffer, or “r”
>>   if you’re replying to an existing message. Because mail is sent with
>>   SMTP, which is an entirely separate process from the mail-reading
>>   servers, it must also be configured separately, with the option
>>   `message-send-mail-function’ (see XXX).
>
> There's no configuration necessary for sending email -- Emacs will
> prompt you for what you want to do.  And sending Emacs isn't part of
> Gnus, anyway...

Okay, that makes sense. I've been gathering together comments from
various sources, and will polish up another version this weekend. Not
very pressing...