Re: Sending attachments

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   The first step is to check for incompatibilities and missing
   features in message-mode.  Currently, message-mode recognizes many
   mail-mode variables, such as `sendmail-program', and do the right
   thing in response.  Someone needs to go through all the sendmail.el
   variables and make sure they are all handled properly in
   message-mode.  Once that is done, we can start to migrate rmail,
   the bug reporter, and any other places that use mail-mode to
   message-mode.

That is much  unneeded work, the only thing  that uses message-mode is
gnus.  It would be much easier to add etach, or similar, to mail-mode,
and make gnus use mail-mode which is the default mode for sending mail
in Emacs.