Re: [PATCH] Reviving qmail with X-Message-SMTP-Method in Gnus

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mohsen BANAN <emacs@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 19:05:04 -0700
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I have been using qmail (as a resident MTA) with
> Gnus through X-Message-SMTP-Method based on the
> attached patch.
> 
> It is just two lines.
> 
> All of what is needed to support qmail is already
> in Gnus and these two lines revives them.
> 
> Lars, could you please apply this patch?
> 
> Documentation can also then be updated in:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/message/Mail-Variables.html
> 
> Architecture of qmail makes for an excellent
> customizable mail sending agent which can be
> integrated with Gnus. More on this later ...
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> ---
> Mohsen BANAN  --- http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net
> 
> >From 13e47efe3c15e7afe3f6db98681e31125d199f58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Mohsen Banan <form@mohsen.banan.1.byname.net>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:35:13 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Reviving qmail with X-Message-SMTP-Method in Gnus
> 
> ---
>  lisp/gnus/message.el | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/gnus/message.el b/lisp/gnus/message.el
> index 7a71ac9f58e..865e5c99000 100644
> --- a/lisp/gnus/message.el
> +++ b/lisp/gnus/message.el
> @@ -5017,6 +5017,8 @@ message-multi-smtp-send-mail
>        (cond
>         ((equal (car method) "sendmail")
>       (message-send-mail-with-sendmail))
> +      ((equal (car method) "qmail")
> +     (message-send-mail-with-qmail))
>         ((equal (car method) "smtp")
>       (require 'smtpmail)
>       (let* ((smtpmail-store-queue-variables t)
> -- 
> 2.30.2

Andrew, Lars: any objections to adding this to message.el?