Re: Sending mail via Gnus if Gnus is not running (?)

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:31:44 +0200, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> 
wrote:

> ,----[ C-h v mail-user-agent RET ]
> | mail-user-agent's value is gnus-user-agent
> | 
> | *Your preference for a mail composition package.
> | Various Emacs Lisp packages (e.g. Reporter) require you to compose an
> | outgoing email message.  This variable lets you specify which
> | mail-sending package you prefer.
> | 
> | Valid values include:
> | 
> |   `sendmail-user-agent' -- use the default Emacs Mail package.
> |                            See Info node `(emacs)Sending Mail'.
> |   `mh-e-user-agent'     -- use the Emacs interface to the MH mail system.
> |                            See Info node `(mh-e)'.
> |   `message-user-agent'  -- use the Gnus Message package.
> |                            See Info node `(message)'.
> |   `gnus-user-agent'     -- like `message-user-agent', but with Gnus
> |                            paraphernalia, particularly the Gcc: header for
> |                            archiving.
> `----

Aha! I checked the sources of reporter.el and that made me try

  (get 'gnus-user-agent 'composefunc)

which resulted in gnus-msg-mail. That was exactly the function I was
looking for!

Thanks,
Edi.

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