Re: Sending attachments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Cc: Chad Brown <address@hidden>, Katsumi Yamaoka <address@hidden>,
>     address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:39:59 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > Could you please post a list of the features you had in mind, so that
> > the effort could be estimated?
> 
> Important things:

Thanks.

>   1. Proper handling of non-ascii text. For instance:
> 
>       a. Proper encoding of non-ascii headers (using "=?" notation)
>       b. Ability to use other transfer encodings besides 8-bit
>       c. Ability to automatically choose different character encodings
>          depending on the language/context/whatever (e.g., for many
>          cases, the "standard" isn't utf-8).

I think this is not really related to attaching files.

>   3. The ability to handle the various quirks of sending netnews as
>      opposed to email (they're similar in many ways, but obviously not
>      all).

And this is out of scope for mail-mode, which (AFAIK) does not support
news.

> p.s. A probably unrelated problem, which made testing a bit annoying:
> I can't actually send _any_ mail with mail-mode, because my ISP's
> mail-forwarder rejects any messages generated with it!  I'm not quite
> sure what extra headers or whatever message-mode adds, but I have no
> problems with mail sent using message-mode...

If you find out why that happens and post the info here, perhaps
someone could fix the problems causing it.  FWIW, I use mail-mode for
many years with many different ISPs with no problems at all.