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27.0.50; Proposal: new introductory section to the Gnus manual

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Message #14 received at 37078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 37078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37078: 27.0.50; Proposal: new introductory section to the
 Gnus manual
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:58:00 -0700

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I'll post this to gnus.general in a second, as well.
>
> Looks good to me, but:
>
>>   Mail message composition starts with “m” in the *Group* buffer, or “r”
>>   if you’re replying to an existing message. Because mail is sent with
>>   SMTP, which is an entirely separate process from the mail-reading
>>   servers, it must also be configured separately, with the option
>>   `message-send-mail-function’ (see XXX).
>
> There's no configuration necessary for sending email -- Emacs will
> prompt you for what you want to do.  And sending Emacs isn't part of
> Gnus, anyway...

Okay, that makes sense. I've been gathering together comments from
various sources, and will polish up another version this weekend. Not
very pressing...

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