Re: [PATCH] Reviving qmail with X-Message-SMTP-Method in Gnus

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrew Cohen <acohen@ust.hk>
> Cc: Mohsen BANAN <emacs@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net>,  Andrew Cohen
>  <cohen@bu.edu>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 15:32:04 +0800
> 
> >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>     EZ> Andrew, Lars: any objections to adding this to message.el?
> 
> Err, yes I object (sort of)! message.el knows how to handle 4 MTAs:
> sendmail, qmail, mh, and mailclient.  The header X-Message-SMTP-Method
> can be used to override the default MTA but for some reason only allows
> sendmail (or the use of smtp directly).  The suggested patch would also
> allow qmail. But the better way to handle this is to allow any of the
> MTAs to be used. I suggest the following patch instead which will do
> this (and in the unlikely event that another MTA is added to message.el
> it would not require any further modification to handle the new MTA). Unless
> there is some objection I'll push this instead.

Fine with me, but please install that on the master branch, not on
emacs-29.

Thanks.