Subject: Re: bug#74630: 31.0.50; emacs-mail-verify

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:23:00 -0500

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > > Do some people run this function from a hook for every message and
  > > want to see output only in case of failure?

  > See above: it displays a message in case of success as well.

I agree, that should be enough.
(I didn't know it did that.)

Perhaps document that in the doc string:

  On successful verification, displays ""Verifying...done" in echo area.

Perhaps it should return t if it succeeds in verifying, and nil otherwise.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)