Re: mail- and sendmail-user-agent

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Feb 22 2010, Mauro Sacchetto wrote:

> Reiner Steib wrote:
>> I think the former is incorrect or at least gives undefined results.
>> I'd suggest to use (setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent).
>
> Yes, u're right, but my problem is: in some How-To I red
> that the syntax to switch from MailMode to Message mode is set:
> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send.it) <-- MailMode
> and
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send.it) <-- MessageMode
> The last string doesn't work for me, 

smtpmail-send.it is nonsense.  Please refer to the official
documentation instead of some random how-to on the web.

,----[ <f1> v message-send-mail-function RET ]
| message-send-mail-function is a variable defined in `message.el'.
| Its value is 
| message-send-mail-with-sendmail
| 
| Documentation:
| Function to call to send the current buffer as mail.
| The headers should be delimited by a line whose contents match the
| variable `mail-header-separator'.
| 
| Valid values include `message-send-mail-with-sendmail'
| `message-send-mail-with-mh', `message-send-mail-with-qmail',
| `message-smtpmail-send-it', `smtpmail-send-it',
| `feedmail-send-it' and `message-send-mail-with-mailclient'.  The
| default is system dependent and determined by the function
| `message-send-mail-function'.
| 
| See also `send-mail-function'.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| [back]
`----

> while does work the following two ones:
> (setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent)
> (require 'smtpmail)
> So I don't understand if I forget anything in the first solution
> for MessageMode...

Bye, Reiner.
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