Re: Rmail and headers in other than US-ASCII (RFC2047 encoded words)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> I think the biggie is message-mode vs. mail-mode -- we really ought to get
> rid of one of them (they're _so_ similar, I have no idea why Lars couldn't
> have just hacked on mail-mode back whenever to add whatever features he
> needed for gnus...).

Message mode started out as a consolidation of the old Gnus news mode
and sendmail.el.  The idea was to create a mode applicable for both
doing news and mail -- hence the name "Message".

(I had also expected Rmail (and the other Emacs mailers) to switch to
Message, since it is (or at least, was) a superset of mail mode (and
has enough hooks in it to tie into just about anything), but that
obviously, er, hasn't happened.)

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   address@hidden * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen