1 ;;; message.el --- composing mail and news messages
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1996-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
6 ;; Keywords: mail, news
8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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25 ;; This mode provides mail-sending facilities from within Emacs. It
26 ;; consists mainly of large chunks of code from the sendmail.el,
27 ;; gnus-msg.el and rnewspost.el files.
31 ;; For Emacs <22.2 and XEmacs.
33 (unless (fboundp 'declare-function) (defmacro declare-function (&rest r))))
40 ;; Only for the trivial macros mail-header-from, mail-header-date
41 ;; mail-header-references, mail-header-subject, mail-header-id
42 (eval-when-compile (require 'nnheader))
43 ;; This is apparently necessary even though things are autoloaded.
44 ;; Because we dynamically bind mail-abbrev-mode-regexp, we'd better
45 ;; require mailabbrev here.
46 (if (featurep 'xemacs)
47 (require 'mail-abbrevs)
48 (require 'mailabbrev))
52 (require 'format-spec)
54 (autoload 'mailclient-send-it "mailclient") ;; Emacs 22 or contrib/
56 (defvar gnus-message-group-art)
57 (defvar gnus-list-identifiers) ; gnus-sum is required where necessary
58 (defvar rmail-enable-mime-composing)
60 (defgroup message '((user-mail-address custom-variable)
61 (user-full-name custom-variable))
62 "Mail and news message composing."
63 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Top")
67 (put 'user-mail-address 'custom-type 'string)
68 (put 'user-full-name 'custom-type 'string)
70 (defgroup message-various nil
71 "Various Message Variables."
72 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Various Message Variables")
75 (defgroup message-buffers nil
77 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Message Buffers")
80 (defgroup message-sending nil
82 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Sending Variables")
85 (defgroup message-interface nil
87 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Interface")
90 (defgroup message-forwarding nil
92 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Forwarding")
93 :group 'message-interface)
95 (defgroup message-insertion nil
97 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Insertion")
100 (defgroup message-headers nil
102 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Message Headers")
105 (defgroup message-news nil
106 "Composing News Messages."
109 (defgroup message-mail nil
110 "Composing Mail Messages."
113 (defgroup message-faces nil
114 "Faces used for message composing."
118 (defcustom message-directory "~/Mail/"
119 "*Directory from which all other mail file variables are derived."
120 :group 'message-various
123 (defcustom message-max-buffers 10
124 "*How many buffers to keep before starting to kill them off."
125 :group 'message-buffers
128 (defcustom message-send-rename-function nil
129 "Function called to rename the buffer after sending it."
130 :group 'message-buffers
131 :type '(choice function (const nil)))
133 (defcustom message-fcc-handler-function 'message-output
134 "*A function called to save outgoing articles.
135 This function will be called with the name of the file to store the
136 article in. The default function is `message-output' which saves in Unix
138 :type '(radio (function-item message-output)
139 (function :tag "Other"))
140 :group 'message-sending)
142 (defcustom message-fcc-externalize-attachments nil
143 "If non-nil, attachments are included as external parts in Fcc copies."
146 :group 'message-sending)
148 (defcustom message-courtesy-message
149 "The following message is a courtesy copy of an article\nthat has been posted to %s as well.\n\n"
150 "*This is inserted at the start of a mailed copy of a posted message.
151 If the string contains the format spec \"%s\", the Newsgroups
152 the article has been posted to will be inserted there.
153 If this variable is nil, no such courtesy message will be added."
154 :group 'message-sending
155 :type '(radio string (const nil)))
157 (defcustom message-ignored-bounced-headers
158 "^\\(Received\\|Return-Path\\|Delivered-To\\):"
159 "*Regexp that matches headers to be removed in resent bounced mail."
160 :group 'message-interface
163 (defcustom message-from-style 'default
164 ;; In Emacs 24.1 this defaults to the value of `mail-from-style'
166 ;; `angles' in Emacs 22.1~23.1, XEmacs 21.4, 21.5, and SXEmacs 22.1;
167 ;; `system-default' in Emacs 23.2, and 24.1
168 "Specifies how \"From\" headers look.
170 If nil, they contain just the return address like:
172 If `parens', they look like:
173 king@grassland.com (Elvis Parsley)
174 If `angles', they look like:
175 Elvis Parsley <king@grassland.com>
177 Otherwise, most addresses look like `angles', but they look like
178 `parens' if `angles' would need quoting and `parens' would not."
180 :type '(choice (const :tag "simple" nil)
184 :group 'message-headers)
186 (defcustom message-insert-canlock t
187 "Whether to insert a Cancel-Lock header in news postings."
189 :group 'message-headers
192 (defcustom message-syntax-checks
193 (if message-insert-canlock '((sender . disabled)) nil)
194 ;; Guess this one shouldn't be easy to customize...