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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: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:41:34 +0000

Dear Eli,

Oh, and message-setup binds mail-user-agent to a value derived from
message-mail-user-agent.  Maybe this is the missing piece you were
looking for.

This may be the key. Let's see if I understand correctly. I would be immensely grateful if you could check the "decision-making pseudocode" below.

CASE A. We're outside of message.el

In this case check the variable mail-user-agent to decide how to create the email. mail-user-agent may say to use something different from the Message package, in which case message-mail-user-agent will never intervene unless we use Gnus, and it doesn't matter what it's set up to.

CASE B. We're inside of message.el

This may happen either because mail-user-agent is set to the Message package, so brings us to use message.el, or because we're inside Gnus which always calls the Message package no matter the value of mail-user-agent.

Now that we're in message.el, first we look at message-mail-user-agent and temporarily ignore mail-user-agent: CASE B.1 It's the Message package, so send the email this way. Note that mail-user-agent does not intervene at all here in B.1, except perhaps to choose case B instead of case A. CASE B.2 It's something else from the Message package and is explicitly set: use that whatever it is. Note that also in this case then mail-user-agent doesn't matter, except perhaps to choose case B instead of case A. Case B.3 It says to look at the value of mail-user-agent. Then if it's the message package, this is the same as case B.1 (except that inside B.3 we have used the value of mail-user-agent), otherwise use whatever other package mail-user-agent says to use.

Do you think this is correct?





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