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

[Andrew Cohen]

>>>>> "MB" == Mohsen BANAN <emacs@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net> writes:

[...]

    MB> Both patches will reactive qmail -- which is what I want. So, as
    MB> far as I am concerned, either is good.

    MB> But, Andrew I want you to consider this.

[...]

    MB> Had you considered that planned obsolescence strategy in your
    MB> patch?

Yes! That is the primary motivation for the patch---you may have noticed
that it doesn't mention qmail (or sendmail, or any other particular
mailer). The issue I had with the current code is that it special-cases
one mailer (or two if we were to add qmail), which makes maintenance
harder. By moving to something generic we can now add new MTAs, or
remove obsolete ones as you suggest, without having to worry about this
part of the code, which will just do the right thing.

In any case I have heard no objections so I'll go ahead and push
it. Thanks for bringing this issue up and improving Emacs!

-- 
Andrew Cohen