mh-e: Sending Mail
8 Sending Mail
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You can send a mail message in several ways. You can call ‘M-x
mh-smail’ directly, or from the command line like this:
$ emacs -f mh-smail
There are some commands that need to send a mail message, such as
‘goto-address-at-point’. You can configure Emacs to have these commands
use MH-E by setting the option ‘mail-user-agent’ to ‘Emacs interface to
MH’.
From within MH-E’s MH-Folder mode, other methods of sending mail are
available as well. These can also be found in the ‘Message’ menu.
‘e’
Edit a message to send it again (‘mh-edit-again’).
‘E’
Edit a message that was returned by the mail system
(‘mh-extract-rejected-mail’).
‘f’
Forward message (‘mh-forward’).
‘r’
Reply to a message (‘mh-reply’).
‘s’
Compose a message (‘mh-send’).
‘M-d’
Redistribute a message (‘mh-redistribute’).
‘M-x mh-smail’
Compose a message with the MH mail system.
‘M-x mh-smail-other-window’
Compose a message with the MH mail system in other window.
In addition, several options from the ‘mh-sending-mail’ customization
group are useful when sending mail or replying to mail. They are
summarized in the following table.
‘mh-compose-forward-as-mime-flag’
On means that messages are forwarded as attachments (default:
‘on’).
‘mh-compose-letter-function’
Hook run when starting a new draft (default: ‘nil’).
‘mh-compose-prompt-flag’
On means prompt for header fields when composing a new draft
(default: ‘off’).
‘mh-forward-subject-format’
Format string for forwarded message subject (default: ‘"%s: %s"’).
‘mh-insert-x-mailer-flag’
On means append an ‘X-Mailer:’ header field to the header (default:
‘on’).
‘mh-redist-full-contents-flag’
On means the ‘dist’ command needs entire letter for redistribution
(default: ‘off’).
‘mh-reply-default-reply-to’
Sets the person or persons to whom a reply will be sent (default:
‘Prompt’).
‘mh-reply-show-message-flag’
On means the MH-Show buffer is displayed using ‘r’ (‘mh-reply’)
(default: ‘on’).
The following hooks are available.
‘mh-annotate-msg-hook’
Hook run by ‘mh-annotate-msg’ after annotation (default: ‘nil’).
‘mh-forward-hook’
Hook run by ‘mh-forward’ on a forwarded letter (default: ‘nil’).
‘mh-letter-mode-hook’
Hook run by ‘mh-letter-mode’ on a new letter (default: ‘nil’).
A hook that is called whenever a message is sent and after the scan
lines and message are annotated is ‘mh-annotate-msg-hook’. Hook
functions can access the current folder name with ‘mh-current-folder’
and obtain the message numbers of the annotated messages with
‘mh-annotate-list’.
The rest of the functions and options introduced here are explained
in more detail in the following sections.
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