Re: mime-compose.el and Debian

[Kevin Rodgers]

Brendan Halpin wrote:
> Phillip Lord <p.lord@cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>
>
>>>>>>>"Brendan" == Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> writes:
>>
>>  Brendan> I use mime-compose.el to attach files to mail in mail-mode,
>>  Brendan> and was caught out when I upgraded to the latest Debian
>>  Brendan> because mime-compose is hard-wired to use mmencode, whereas
>>  Brendan> Debian offers mimencode instead.
>>
>>  Brendan> Is mime-compose obsolete, and if so what should I be using
>>  Brendan> to compose mime mail?
>>
>>
>>I tend to use Gnus these days, which has full read/write support for
>>mime. Have you tried message-mode (rather than mail-mode). MML (the
>>mime support) should just work.
>
>
> I do use both (ie currently in message-mode), but can't break the
> RMAIL habit so I get mail-mode when I do C-u R.

Doesn't RMAIL respect mail-user-agent?

(setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent)

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Kevin Rodgers