When a program (or a person) wants to respond to a message—reply,
follow up, forward, cancel—the program (or person) should just put
point in the buffer where the message is and call the required command.
Message will then pop up a new message mode buffer with
appropriate headers filled out, and the user can edit the message before
sending it.
| • New Mail Message: | Editing a brand new mail message. | |
| • New News Message: | Editing a brand new news message. | |
| • Reply: | Replying via mail. | |
| • Wide Reply: | Responding to all people via mail. | |
| • Followup: | Following up via news. | |
| • Canceling News: | Canceling a news article. | |
| • Superseding: | Superseding a message. | |
| • Forwarding: | Forwarding a message via news or mail. | |
| • Resending: | Resending a mail message. | |
| • Bouncing: | Bouncing a mail message. | |
| • Mailing Lists: | Send mail to mailing lists. |
You can customize the Message Mode tool bar, see M-x customize-apropos RET message-tool-bar. This feature is only available in Emacs.