1 ;;; message.el --- composing mail and news messages
2 ;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
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-message-group-art)
36 (defvar gnus-list-identifiers)) ; gnus-sum is required where necessary
40 ;; This is apparently necessary even though things are autoloaded.
41 ;; Because we dynamically bind mail-abbrev-mode-regexp, we'd better
42 ;; require mailabbrev here.
43 (if (featurep 'xemacs)
44 (require 'mail-abbrevs)
45 (require 'mailabbrev))
50 (autoload 'sha1 "sha1-el")
51 (autoload 'gnus-find-method-for-group "gnus")
52 (autoload 'nnvirtual-find-group-art "nnvirtual")
53 (autoload 'gnus-group-decoded-name "gnus-group"))
55 (defgroup message '((user-mail-address custom-variable)
56 (user-full-name custom-variable))
57 "Mail and news message composing."
58 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Top")
62 (put 'user-mail-address 'custom-type 'string)
63 (put 'user-full-name 'custom-type 'string)
65 (defgroup message-various nil
66 "Various Message Variables"
67 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Various Message Variables")
70 (defgroup message-buffers nil
72 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Message Buffers")
75 (defgroup message-sending nil
77 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Sending Variables")
80 (defgroup message-interface nil
82 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Interface")
85 (defgroup message-forwarding nil
87 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Forwarding")
88 :group 'message-interface)
90 (defgroup message-insertion nil
92 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Insertion")
95 (defgroup message-headers nil
97 :link '(custom-manual "(message)Message Headers")
100 (defgroup message-news nil
101 "Composing News Messages"
104 (defgroup message-mail nil
105 "Composing Mail Messages"
108 (defgroup message-faces nil
109 "Faces used for message composing."
113 (defcustom message-directory "~/Mail/"
114 "*Directory from which all other mail file variables are derived."
115 :group 'message-various
118 (defcustom message-max-buffers 10
119 "*How many buffers to keep before starting to kill them off."
120 :group 'message-buffers
123 (defcustom message-send-rename-function nil
124 "Function called to rename the buffer after sending it."
125 :group 'message-buffers
126 :type '(choice function (const nil)))
128 (defcustom message-fcc-handler-function 'message-output
129 "*A function called to save outgoing articles.
130 This function will be called with the name of the file to store the
131 article in. The default function is `message-output' which saves in Unix
133 :type '(radio (function-item message-output)
134 (function :tag "Other"))
135 :group 'message-sending)
137 (defcustom message-fcc-externalize-attachments nil
138 "If non-nil, attachments are included as external parts in Fcc copies."
140 :group 'message-sending)
142 (defcustom message-courtesy-message
143 "The following message is a courtesy copy of an article\nthat has been posted to %s as well.\n\n"
144 "*This is inserted at the start of a mailed copy of a posted message.
145 If the string contains the format spec \"%s\", the Newsgroups
146 the article has been posted to will be inserted there.
147 If this variable is nil, no such courtesy message will be added."
148 :group 'message-sending
149 :type '(radio (string :format "%t: %v\n" :size 0) (const nil)))
151 (defcustom message-ignored-bounced-headers
152 "^\\(Received\\|Return-Path\\|Delivered-To\\):"
153 "*Regexp that matches headers to be removed in resent bounced mail."
154 :group 'message-interface
158 (defcustom message-from-style 'default
159 "*Specifies how \"From\" headers look.
161 If nil, they contain just the return address like:
163 If `parens', they look like:
164 king@grassland.com (Elvis Parsley)
165 If `angles', they look like:
166 Elvis Parsley <king@grassland.com>
168 Otherwise, most addresses look like `angles', but they look like
169 `parens' if `angles' would need quoting and `parens' would not."
170 :type '(choice (const :tag "simple" nil)
174 :group 'message-headers)
176 (defcustom message-insert-canlock t
177 "Whether to insert a Cancel-Lock header in news postings."
179 :group 'message-headers
182 (defcustom message-syntax-checks
183 (if message-insert-canlock '((sender . disabled)) nil)
184 ;; Guess this one shouldn't be easy to customize...
185 "*Controls what syntax checks should not be performed on outgoing posts.
186 To disable checking of long signatures, for instance, add
187 `(signature . disabled)' to this list.
189 Don't touch this variable unless you really know what you're doing.