Subject: bug#28150: mail-compose doesnot work correctly with gnus-user-agent

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 22:33:32 +0300

> From: Рейх Константин
> 	<[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 22:07:18 +0300
> 
> I noticed that if Gnus isn't running, mail-compose doesnot use gnus even if i set
> (setq mail-user-agent 'gnus-user-agent)
> 
> The reason is that gnus-msg-mail uses plain Message mode if gnus isn't running. Is this a bug or feature? 

It must be a feature, because it was explicitly added in commit
7582f844.  Perhaps Lars can shed some light on this.