new version of feedmail (v10)

[WJCarpenter]

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.)
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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 address@hidden)
;;         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 address@hidden (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 address@hidden (Tony Lam) and
;;           address@hidden (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 <address@hidden>)
;;         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 
;;           address@hidden 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 address@hidden)