About GUI widgets.
-*- outline -*-
* Message headers fields.
from = "From:" mailbox-list CRLF
sender = "Sender:" mailbox CRLF
reply-to = "Reply-To:" address-list CRLF
to = "To:" address-list CRLF
cc = "Cc:" address-list CRLF
bcc = "Bcc:" (address-list / [CFWS]) CRLF
newsgroups
http://tools.ietf.org/rfc//rfc2076.txt
Common Internet Message Headers, Informational
http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt
Internet Message Format, Standard Track
http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Standard Track
* Sending email via gmail in emacs.
; install starttls from here (no need for patch)
; http://josefsson.org/emacs-smtp-starttls.html
(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
smtpmail-starttls-credentials
'(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil))
smtpmail-auth-credentials
(expand-file-name "~/.authinfo")
smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
smtpmail-smtp-service 587
smtpmail-debug-info t
starttls-extra-arguments nil
smtpmail-warn-about-unknown-extensions t
starttls-use-gnutls nil)
machine smtp.gmail.com login [your name]@gmail.com password [your password]
And finally download, unzip, make and install startttls:
http://josefsson.org/emacs-smtp-starttls.html
See
http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.com/2009/02/sending-email-via-gmail-in-emacs.html
http://obfuscatedcode.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/configuring-emacs-for-gmails-smtp
* Mail etiquette.
** Bottom vs. top quoting.
Just not use top quoting!
** Stallman warn about Google.
http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org/msg00302.html