Re: Sending attachments

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:37:32 -0400, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> wrote:
> For such a feature to be properly implmented they wouldn't be in
> mail-mode (or any such mode), but in a seperate mode that handles MIME
> attachment exclusivly.  If message-mode handles this itself, then it
> is a sign that it was not properly thought through.

It's a library already, IIRC.  The mml-* functions can parse a simple
meta-language from plain text buffers and generate MIME messages:

,---[ (emacs-mime)Top > Composing ----------------------------------
|
| 2 Composing
| ***********
|
| Creating a MIME message is boring and non-trivial.  Therefore, a
| library called `mml' has been defined that parses a language called MML
| (MIME Meta Language) and generates MIME messages.
|
`-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Perhaps mail-mode can be tweaked to use `mml-' functions too?