1 ;;; message.el --- composing mail and news messages
2 ;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
3 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
6 ;; Keywords: mail, news
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27 ;; This mode provides mail-sending facilities from within Emacs. It
28 ;; consists mainly of large chunks of code from the sendmail.el,
29 ;; gnus-msg.el and rnewspost.el files.
35 (defvar gnus-list-identifiers)) ; gnus-sum is required where necessary
39 ;; This is apparently necessary even though things are autoloaded:
40 (if (featurep 'xemacs)
41 (require 'mail-abbrevs))
45 (defgroup message '((user-mail-address custom-variable)
46 (user-full-name custom-variable))
47 "Mail and news message composing."
48 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Top")
52 (put 'user-mail-address 'custom-type 'string)
53 (put 'user-full-name 'custom-type 'string)
55 (defgroup message-various nil
56 "Various Message Variables"
57 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Various Message Variables")
60 (defgroup message-buffers nil
62 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Message Buffers")
65 (defgroup message-sending nil
67 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Sending Variables")
70 (defgroup message-interface nil
72 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Interface")
75 (defgroup message-forwarding nil
77 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Forwarding")
78 :group 'message-interface)
80 (defgroup message-insertion nil
82 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Insertion")
85 (defgroup message-headers nil
87 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Message Headers")
90 (defgroup message-news nil
91 "Composing News Messages"
94 (defgroup message-mail nil
95 "Composing Mail Messages"
98 (defgroup message-faces nil
99 "Faces used for message composing."
103 (defcustom message-directory "~/Mail/"
104 "*Directory from which all other mail file variables are derived."
105 :group 'message-various
108 (defcustom message-max-buffers 10
109 "*How many buffers to keep before starting to kill them off."
110 :group 'message-buffers
113 (defcustom message-send-rename-function nil
114 "Function called to rename the buffer after sending it."
115 :group 'message-buffers
118 (defcustom message-fcc-handler-function 'message-output
119 "*A function called to save outgoing articles.
120 This function will be called with the name of the file to store the
121 article in. The default function is `message-output' which saves in Unix
123 :type '(radio (function-item message-output)
124 (function :tag "Other"))
125 :group 'message-sending)
127 (defcustom message-courtesy-message
128 "The following message is a courtesy copy of an article\nthat has been posted to %s as well.\n\n"
129 "*This is inserted at the start of a mailed copy of a posted message.
130 If the string contains the format spec \"%s\", the Newsgroups
131 the article has been posted to will be inserted there.
132 If this variable is nil, no such courtesy message will be added."
133 :group 'message-sending
136 (defcustom message-ignored-bounced-headers "^\\(Received\\|Return-Path\\):"
137 "*Regexp that matches headers to be removed in resent bounced mail."
138 :group 'message-interface
142 (defcustom message-from-style 'default
143 "*Specifies how \"From\" headers look.
145 If `nil', they contain just the return address like:
147 If `parens', they look like:
148 king@grassland.com (Elvis Parsley)
149 If `angles', they look like:
150 Elvis Parsley <king@grassland.com>
152 Otherwise, most addresses look like `angles', but they look like
153 `parens' if `angles' would need quoting and `parens' would not."
154 :type '(choice (const :tag "simple" nil)
158 :group 'message-headers)
160 (defcustom message-syntax-checks nil
161 ;; Guess this one shouldn't be easy to customize...
162 "*Controls what syntax checks should not be performed on outgoing posts.
163 To disable checking of long signatures, for instance, add
164 `(signature . disabled)' to this list.
166 Don't touch this variable unless you really know what you're doing.
168 Checks include subject-cmsg multiple-headers sendsys message-id from
169 long-lines control-chars size new-text quoting-style
170 redirected-followup signature approved sender empty empty-headers
171 message-id from subject shorten-followup-to existing-newsgroups
172 buffer-file-name unchanged newsgroups."
174 :type '(repeat sexp))
176 (defcustom message-required-news-headers
177 '(From Newsgroups Subject Date Message-ID
178 (optional . Organization) Lines
179 (optional . User-Agent))
180 "*Headers to be generated or prompted for when posting an article.
181 RFC977 and RFC1036 require From, Date, Newsgroups, Subject,
182 Message-ID. Organization, Lines, In-Reply-To, Expires, and
183 User-Agent are optional. If don't you want message to insert some
184 header, remove it from this list."
186 :group 'message-headers
187 :type '(repeat sexp))
189 (defcustom message-required-mail-headers
190 '(From Subject Date (optional . In-Reply-To) Message-ID Lines
191 (optional . User-Agent))
192 "*Headers to be generated or prompted for when mailing a message.
193 RFC822 required that From, Date, To, Subject and Message-ID be
194 included. Organization, Lines and User-Agent are optional."
196 :group 'message-headers
197 :type '(repeat sexp))
199 (defcustom message-deletable-headers '(Message-ID Date Lines)
200 "Headers to be deleted if they already exist and were generated by message previously."
201 :group 'message-headers
204 (defcustom message-ignored-news-headers
205 "^NNTP-Posting-Host:\\|^Xref:\\|^[BGF]cc:\\|^Resent-Fcc:"
206 "*Regexp of headers to be removed unconditionally before posting."
208 :group 'message-headers
211 (defcustom message-ignored-mail-headers "^[GF]cc:\\|^Resent-Fcc:\\|^Xref:"
212 "*Regexp of headers to be removed unconditionally before mailing."
214 :group 'message-headers
217 (defcustom message-ignored-supersedes-headers "^Path:\\|^Date\\|^NNTP-Posting-Host:\\|^Xref:\\|^Lines:\\|^Received:\\|^X-From-Line:\\|^X-Trace:\\|^X-Complaints-To:\\|Return-Path:\\|^Supersedes:\\|^NNTP-Posting-Date:\\|^X-Trace:\\|^X-Complaints-To:"
218 "*Header lines matching this regexp will be deleted before posting.
219 It's best to delete old Path and Date headers before posting to avoid
221 :group 'message-interface
224 (defcustom message-subject-re-regexp "^[ \t]*\\([Rr][Ee]:[ \t]*\\)*[ \t]*"
225 "*Regexp matching \"Re: \" in the subject line."
226 :group 'message-various
230 (defcustom message-signature-separator "^-- *$"
231 "Regexp matching the signature separator."
233 :group 'message-various)
235 (defcustom message-elide-ellipsis "\n[...]\n\n"
236 "*The string which is inserted for elided text."
238 :group 'message-various)
240 (defcustom message-interactive nil
241 "Non-nil means when sending a message wait for and display errors.
242 nil means let mailer mail back a message to report errors."
243 :group 'message-sending
247 (defcustom message-generate-new-buffers 'unique
248 "*Non-nil means that a new message buffer will be created whenever `message-setup' is called.
249 If this is a function, call that function with three parameters: The type,
250 the to address and the group name. (Any of these may be nil.) The function
251 should return the new buffer name."
252 :group 'message-buffers