`empty', `existing-newsgroups', `from', `illegible-text',
`invisible-text', `long-header-lines', `long-lines', `message-id',
`multiple-headers', `new-text', `newsgroups', `quoting-style',
-`repeated-newsgroups', `reply-to', `sendsys', `shoot',
+`repeated-newsgroups', `reply-to', `sender', `sendsys', `shoot',
`shorten-followup-to', `signature', `size', `subject', `subject-cmsg'
and `valid-newsgroups'."
:group 'message-news
Valid checks are:
@table @code
-@item subject-cmsg
-Check the subject for commands.
-@item sender
-@cindex Sender
-Insert a new @code{Sender} header if the @code{From} header looks odd.
-@item multiple-headers
-Check for the existence of multiple equal headers.
-@item sendsys
-@cindex sendsys
-Check for the existence of version and sendsys commands.
-@item message-id
-Check whether the @code{Message-ID} looks ok.
-@item from
-Check whether the @code{From} header seems nice.
-@item long-lines
-@cindex long lines
-Check for too long lines.
-@item control-chars
-Check for invalid characters.
-@item size
-Check for excessive size.
-@item new-text
-Check whether there is any new text in the messages.
-@item signature
-Check the length of the signature.
@item approved
@cindex approved
Check whether the article has an @code{Approved} header, which is
something only moderators should include.
+@item continuation-headers
+Check whether there are continuation header lines that don't begin with
+whitespace.
+@item control-chars
+Check for invalid characters.
@item empty
Check whether the article is empty.
-@item invisible-text
-Check whether there is any invisible text in the buffer.
-@item empty-headers
-Check whether any of the headers are empty.
@item existing-newsgroups
Check whether the newsgroups mentioned in the @code{Newsgroups} and
@code{Followup-To} headers exist.
-@item valid-newsgroups
-Check whether the @code{Newsgroups} and @code{Followup-to} headers
-are valid syntactically.
+@item from
+Check whether the @code{From} header seems nice.
+@item illegible-text
+Check whether there is any non-printable character in the body.
+@item invisible-text
+Check whether there is any invisible text in the buffer.
+@item long-header-lines
+Check for too long header lines.
+@item long-lines
+@cindex long lines
+Check for too long lines in the body.
+@item message-id
+Check whether the @code{Message-ID} looks syntactically ok.
+@item multiple-headers
+Check for the existence of multiple equal headers.
+@item new-text
+Check whether there is any new text in the messages.
+@item newsgroups
+Check whether the @code{Newsgroups} header exists and is not empty.
+@item quoting-style
+Check whether text follows last quoted portion.
@item repeated-newsgroups
Check whether the @code{Newsgroups} and @code{Followup-to} headers
contains repeated group names.
+@item reply-to
+Check whether the @code{Reply-To} header looks ok.
+@item sender
+@cindex Sender
+Insert a new @code{Sender} header if the @code{From} header looks odd.
+@item sendsys
+@cindex sendsys
+Check for the existence of version and sendsys commands.
+@item shoot
+Check whether the domain part of the @code{Message-ID} header looks ok.
@item shorten-followup-to
Check whether to add a @code{Followup-to} header to shorten the number
of groups to post to.
+@item signature
+Check the length of the signature.
+@item size
+Check for excessive size.
+@item subject
+Check whether the @code{Subject} header exists and is not empty.
+@item subject-cmsg
+Check the subject for commands.
+@item valid-newsgroups
+Check whether the @code{Newsgroups} and @code{Followup-to} headers
+are valid syntactically.
@end table
-All these conditions are checked by default.
+All these conditions are checked by default, except for @code{sender}
+for which the check is disabled by default if
+@code{message-insert-canlock} is non-@code{nil} (@pxref{Canceling News}).
@item message-ignored-news-headers
@vindex message-ignored-news-headers