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24.3; message-mode sends unencrypted on error

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>
Cc: 18513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg <at> fifthhorseman.net>
Subject: bug#18513: 24.3; message-mode sends unencrypted on error
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:53:50 +0200

David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net> writes:

> I don't think the fact that we can't do a perfect job is a reason not to
> improve the error checking. There are many errors that can be detected
> that currently are not. Is erroring on an unknown mml tag (which
> nonethless actually looks like a tag) actually difficult?

It's not difficult to bug out on <#unknown>, but since Message mode
buffers mostly free text, doing so would lead to people having their
emails fail if they were to type such a thing by hand.  MML is only
recognised if it's one of the keywords it er recognises.

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