Robert Goldman writes: > I note that the VM manual states that it uses mail-mode, rather than > message-mode for composing email.
Not exactly. When you use VM, you get to use what you might call vm-mail-mode, which is built on top of mail-mode. To "use" message-mode with VM, VM has to be modified to do that, which is on our To-do list but it is of low priority at this point. VM doesn't really "need" message-mode because it does its own MIME processing. So, until the basic SMTP protocol changes, we will be fine with the existing mail-mode. If Emacs stops shipping mail-mode, we will ship it ourselves with VM, which is allowed under the GPL licensing. > I'm using Emacs 24, where message mode is the default, which means that a > rash keystroke can send me into message-mode, and message mode is better > supported than mail-mode. What keystroke can send you into message-mode? You mean, if you run `C-x m' before you load VM, you get message-mode? If that is an issue, you might want to bind `C-x m' in your .emacs. Cheers, Uday
