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bug#67638: Description of the variable message-mail-user-agent in Emacs


From: rameiko87
Subject: bug#67638: Description of the variable message-mail-user-agent in Emacs 29.1
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:22:17 +0000

Dear Eli,
Thanks very much for your swift reply. Please understand that I mean no disturbance through my questions, I'm only trying to understand. What is confusing me still is that mail-user-agent sets the composition package for outgoing emails (in my personal configuration this is the Message package, in my mind this is the MUA being used when writing emails). The message-mail-user-agent variable instead it's not clear what is setting.

"Your preferred mail composition package when reading email with message.el.

But I read my emails with Rmail. Perhaps you meant "when composing emails with message.el"? If yes, I thought that the message package was the email composition package and that I assigned this with the variable mail-user-agent, so I'm not sure what I'm setting here.

Like `mail-user-agent' (which see), this specifies the mail-sending package you prefer.

Now the composition package from the first quote turned into sending package! What is a mail sending package? How is this variable the "analogous" of mail-user-agent (I really don't like that "Like")?

The value can be any value accepted by `mail-user-agent', and in addition it can be nil or t. If the value is nil, use the Gnus native Mail User Agent (MUA); if it is t, use the value of `mail-user-agent'."

Why is the default the Gnus package? The problem is that I still don't understand the difference with mail-user-agent.





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