A new version, patchlevel 10, of feedmail.el is available here: http://www.carpenter.org/feedmail This is a "safe" release, by which I mean that it doesn't have any exotic new stuff that hasn't been in use for a while. (There was a very short cycle between patchlevel 9 and patchlevel 10 because of some important internationalization things brought to my attention.) -- bill(a)carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3 The short form of what it is: ;;; feedmail.el --- assist other email packages to massage outgoing messages ;;; A replacement for parts of GNUemacs' sendmail.el (specifically, ;;; it's what handles your outgoing mail after you hit C-c C-c in mail ;;; mode). See below for a list of additional features, including the ;;; ability to queue messages for later sending. If you are using ;;; fakemail as a subprocess, you can switch to feedmail and eliminate ;;; the use of fakemail. Here is the changelog: ;; Change log: ;; original, 31 March 1991 ;; patchlevel 1, 5 April 1991 ;; patchlevel 2, 24 May 1991 ;; 5-may-92 jwz Conditionalized calling expand-mail-aliases, since that ;; function doesn't exist in Lucid GNU Emacs or when using ;; mail-abbrevs.el. ;; patchlevel 3, 3 October 1996 ;; added queue stuff; still works in v18 ;; patchlevel 4, issued by someone else ;; patchlevel 5, issued by someone else ;; patchlevel 6, not issued as far as I know ;; patchlevel 7, 20 May 1997 ;; abandon futile support of GNUemacs v18 (sorry if that hurts you) ;; provide a DATE: header by default ;; provide a default for generating MESSAGE-ID: header contents ;; and use it by default (slightly changed API) ;; return value from feedmail-run-the-queue ;; new wrapper function feedmail-run-the-queue-no-prompts ;; user-mail-address as default for FROM: ;; properly deal with RESENT-{TO,CC,BCC} ;; BCC and RESENT-* now included in smart filling ;; limited support for a "drafts" directory ;; user-configurable default message action ;; allow timeout for confirmation prompt (where available) ;; move FCC handling to as late as possible to get max ;; header munging in the saved file ;; work around sendmail.el's prompts when working from queue ;; more reliably detect voluntary user bailouts ;; offer to save modified buffers visiting queue files ;; offer to delete old file copies of messages being queued ;; offer to delete queue files when sending immediately ;; queue filename convention preserves queue order ;; default queue and draft directory names that work on VMS ;; deduced address list now really a list, not a string (API change) ;; no more address buffer ;; when sending immediately, brief reminder of queue/draft counts ;; copy trace of smtpmail stuff to feedmail error buffer on no-go ;; more granularity on when to confirm sending ;; pause a bit for errors while running queue ;; try to clean up some pesky auto-save files from the ;; queue/draft directories ;; feedmail-force-expand-mail-aliases in case you can't figure ;; any other way ;; cleanup some of my sloppiness about case-fold-search (a strange ;; variable) ;; best effort following coding conventions from GNUemacs ;; elisp manual appendix ;; "customize" (see custom.el) ;; when user selects "immediate send", clear action prompt since ;; hooks may take a while to operate, and user may think the ;; response didn't take ;; fixes to the argument conventions for the ;; feedmail-queue-runner-* functions; allows ;; feedmail-run-the-queue[-no-prompts] to properly be called ;; non-interactively ;; eliminate reliance on directory-sep-char and feedmail-sep-thing ;; tweak smart filling (reminded of comma problem by levitte(a)lp.se) ;; option to control writing in text vs binary mode ;; patchlevel 8, 15 June 1998 ;; reliable re-editing of text-mode (vs binary) queued messages ;; user option to keep BCC: in FCC: copy (keep by default) ;; user option to delete body from FCC: copy (keep by default) ;; feedmail-deduce-bcc-where for envelope (API change for ;; feedmail-deduce-address list) ;; feedmail-queue-alternative-mail-header-separator ;; at message action prompt, "I"/"S" bypass message confirmation prompt ;; feedmail-mail-send-hook-splitter, feedmail-mail-send-hook, ;; feedmail-mail-send-hook-queued ;; user can supply stuff for message action prompt ;; variable feedmail-queue-runner-confirm-global, function feedmail-run-the-queue-global-prompt ;; bugfix: absolute argument to directory-files (tracked down for me ;; by gray(a)austin.apc.slb.com (Douglas Gray Stephens)); relative ;; pathnames can tickle stuff in ange-ftp remote directories ;; (perhaps because feedmail is careless about its working ;; directory) ;; feedmail-deduce-envelope-from ;; always supply envelope "from" (user-mail-address) to sendmail ;; feedmail-message-id-suffix ;; feedmail-queue-reminder, feedmail-queue-reminder-alist (after suggestions ;; and/or code fragments from tonyl(a)Eng.Sun.COM (Tony Lam) and ;; burge(a)newvision.com (Shane Burgess); bumped up the default value of ;; feedmail-queue-chatty-sit-for since info is more complex sometimes ;; feedmail-enable-spray (individual transmissions, crude mailmerge) ;; blank SUBJECT: no longer a special case; see feedmail-nuke-empty-headers ;; fiddle-plexes data structure used lots of places; see feedmail-fiddle-plex-blurb ;; feedmail-fiddle-plex-user-list ;; feedmail-is-a-resend ;; honor mail-from-style in constructing default for feedmail-from-line ;; re-implement feedmail-from-line and feedmail-sender-line with ;; fiddle-plexes; slightly modified semantics for feedmail-sender-line ;; feedmail-queue-default-file-slug; tidy up some other slug details ;; feedmail-queue-auto-file-nuke ;; feedmail-queue-express-to-queue and feedmail-queue-express-to-draft ;; strong versions of "q"ueue and "d"raft answers (always make a new file) ;; patchlevel 9, 23 March 2001 ;; feedmail-queue-buffer-file-name to work around undesirable mail-send prompt ;; at message action prompt, can scroll message buffer with "<" and ">"; ;; C-v no longer scrolls help buffer ;; conditionalize (discard-input) in message action prompt to avoid killing ;; define-kbd-macro ;; fixed error if feedmail-x-mailer-line was nil ;; feedmail-binmail-template only uses /bin/rmail if it exists ;; relocate feedmail-queue-alternative-mail-header-separator stuff ;; added feedmail-vm-mail-mode, which make a good auto-mode-alist entry ;; for FQM files if you're a VM user ;; change buffer-substring calls to buffer-substring-no-properties for ;; speed-up (suggested by Howard Melman <howard(a)silverstream.com>) ;; feedmail-sendmail-f-doesnt-sell-me-out to contol "-f" in call to sendmail ;; in feedmail-buffer-to-sendmail ;; better trapping of odd conditions during the running of the queue; ;; thanks to Yigal Hochberg for helping me test much of this by remote ;; control ;; feedmail-debug and feedmail-debug-sit-for ;; feedmail-display-full-frame ;; feedmail-queue-express-hook ;; added example function feedmail-spray-via-bbdb ;; use expand-file-name for setting default directory names ;; define feedmail-binmail-linuxish-template as a suggestion for ;; the value of feedmail-binmail-template on Linux and maybe other ;; systems with non-classic /bin/[r]mail behavior ;; guard against nil user-mail-address in generating MESSAGE-ID: ;; feedmail-queue-slug-suspect-regexp is now a variable to ;; accomodate non-ASCII environments (thanks to ;; Makoto.Nakagawa(a)jp.compaq.com for this suggestion) ;; feedmail-buffer-to-smtp, to parallel feedmail-buffer-to-smtpmail ;; patchlevel 10, 22 April 2001 ;; DATE: and MESSAGE-ID stuff now forces system-time-locale to "C" ;; (brought to my attention by Makoto.Nakagawa(a)jp.compaq.com)