# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 982549598 0 # Node ID 1f5dd1c73a2ab2f654c465b673652f28db5fac38 # Parent 548a3aac5d5dff9b448b3dbf5f949d61ccd59109 Delete Footnote mode info. Comment out EUDC info. Merge fortune-to-signature info with spook in one node, called Mail Amusements. Other small changes. diff -r 548a3aac5d5d -r 1f5dd1c73a2a man/sending.texi --- a/man/sending.texi Mon Feb 19 01:57:45 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/sending.texi Mon Feb 19 02:26:38 2001 +0000 @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ to make a new @samp{*mail*} buffer. Once you've done that, you can work with each mail buffer independently. +@ignore +@c Commented out because it is not user-oriented; +@c it doesn't say how to do some job. -- rms. @cindex directory servers @cindex LDAP @cindex PH/QI @@ -65,15 +68,14 @@ as LDAP or the CCSO white pages directory system (PH/QI), described in a separate manual. It may be useful for looking up names and addresses. @xref{Top,,EUDC, eudc, EUDC Manual}. +@end ignore @menu * Format: Mail Format. Format of the mail being composed. * Headers: Mail Headers. Details of permitted mail header fields. * Aliases: Mail Aliases. Abbreviating and grouping mail addresses. * Mode: Mail Mode. Special commands for editing mail being composed. -* Spook: Distracting NSA. How to distract the NSA's attention. -* Fortune:: `Fortune' items in signatures. -* Footnotes: Mail Footnotes. Making footnotes in messages. +* Amuse: Mail Amusements. Distracting the NSA; adding fortune messages. * Methods: Mail Methods. Using alternative mail-composition methods. @end menu @@ -154,7 +156,7 @@ To send a blind carbon copy of every outgoing message to yourself, set the variable @code{mail-self-blind} to @code{t}. To send a blind carbon copy of every message to some other @var{address}, set the variable -@code{mail-default-headers} to @samp{"Bcc: @var{address}\n"}. +@code{mail-default-headers} to @code{"Bcc: @var{address}\n"}. @item FCC This field contains the name of one file and directs Emacs to append a @@ -240,9 +242,12 @@ @end table @vindex mail-default-headers - You can force Emacs to insert specific headers into the outgoing -message by customizing the variable @code{mail-default-headers}. Its -value as a string is inserted before you edit the message. + You can direct Emacs to insert certain default headers into the +outgoing message by setting the variable @code{mail-default-headers} +to a string. Then @code{C-x m} inserts this string into the message +headers. If the default header fields are not appropriate for a +particular message, edit them as appropriate before sending the +message. @node Mail Aliases @section Mail Aliases @@ -613,8 +618,8 @@ @code{mail-setup} function puts in the default contents of the buffer. After these default contents are inserted, @code{mail-setup-hook} runs. -@node Distracting NSA -@section Distracting the NSA +@node Mail Amusements +@section Mail Amusements @findex spook @cindex NSA @@ -634,50 +639,30 @@ entering an outgoing message: @example -(setq mail-signature '(spook)) +(add-hook 'mail-setup-hook 'spook) @end example Whether or not this confuses the NSA, it at least amuses people. -@node Fortune -@section Putting @code{fortune} Items in Signatures - -@pindex fortune @findex fortune-to-signature -@findex fortune-from-region -@cindex signatures, mail/news @cindex fortune cookies -You can use the @code{fortune} program to create signatures for mail or -network news messages. (@code{fortune} prints a random---with luck, -interesting---adage, originally inspired by `fortune cookie' messages.) -To generate signatures, add @code{fortune-to-signature} to -@code{mail-setup-hook} and/or @code{message-setup-hook} as appropriate. -You can automatically cut regions to a Fortune file with @kbd{M-x -fortune-from-region} and compile your own Fortune database. + You can use the @code{fortune} program to put a ``fortune cookie'' +message into outpoing mail. To do this, add +@code{fortune-to-signature} to @code{mail-setup-hook}: -@node Mail Footnotes -@section Making Footnotes -@cindex footnotes - -@findex footnote-mode -@kbd{M-x footnote-mode} toggles a minor mode for making footnotes in -mail or network news messages. It is intended for use specifically with -Message mode but is not specific to that. It provides commands and -keybindings to insert footnotes, go to a given note, delete a note and -renumber notes. See the group @code{footnote} for customization and the -mode's documentation for keybindings. To set up Footnote mode for all -messages, add @code{footnote-mode} to @code{mail-mode-hook} and/or -@code{message-mode-hook} as appropriate. +@example +(add-hook 'mail-setup-hook 'fortune-to-signature) +@end example @node Mail Methods @section Mail-Composition Methods @cindex mail-composition methods - This chapter describes the usual Emacs mode for editing and sending -mail---Mail mode. Emacs has alternative facilities for editing and -sending mail, including @cindex MH mail interface @cindex Message mode for sending mail + In this chapter we have described the usual Emacs mode for editing +and sending mail---Mail mode. Emacs has alternative facilities for +editing and sending mail, including MH-E and Message mode, not documented in this manual. @xref{,MH-E,,mh-e, The Emacs Interface to MH}. @xref{,Message,,message, Message Manual}. You can choose any of them as your preferred method. @@ -688,11 +673,11 @@ @vindex mail-user-agent To specify your mail-composition method, customize the variable @code{mail-user-agent}. Currently legitimate values include -@code{sendmail-user-agent}, @code{mh-e-user-agent}, +@code{sendmail-user-agent} (Mail mode), @code{mh-e-user-agent}, @code{message-user-agent} and @code{gnus-user-agent}. - If you select a different mail-composition method, the information in -this chapter about the @samp{*mail*} buffer and Mail mode does not -necessarily apply; other methods may use completely different commands -with a different format in a differently named buffer. + If you select a different mail-composition method, the information +in this chapter about the @samp{*mail*} buffer and Mail mode does not +apply; the other methods use a different format of text in a different +buffer, and their commands are different as well.