bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (05/10/89)
I want GNUS (2.11) to insert a header line like "Reply-To: bob@cis.ohio-state.edu" in each article I post. I think I want to use gnus-optional-headers and some appropriate hook functions, but I'm not much of a Lisp hacqeur. Any suggestions would be welcome. Long-winded explanation follows - hit "n" or something if you aren't interested. Our mail system creates From: lines with our domain name like "user@cis.ohio-state.edu". Several hosts advertise MX for that domain, and we have one unified mail system, so that works fine. Our news system creates From: lines with full hostnames like "user@host.cis.ohio-state.edu". This will cause privately-mailed responses to news articles to be delivered to that user on that machine. Once delivered to a particular machine, the mail message will enter the unified department-wide mail system, so that works fine too. Occasionally, a particular machine (usually one running SunOS 4.0) from which I may recently have posted news will go AWOL and stop answering the phone for SMTP deliveries. Alas, that means that mail delivery attempts to that machine to fail and queue, and I may not even notice for several days because I'm exchanging plenty of mail traffic via "bob@cis.ohio-state.edu", and I don't even miss the traffic that isn't succeeding in finding that particular host.
tale@PAWL.RPI.EDU (David C Lawrence) (05/10/89)
This is how I do it:
(setq news-inews-hook
'(lambda ()
(mail-position-on-field "Reply-to")
(insert "tale@pawl.rpi.edu")))
Works just fine for me; I use it because I sometimes read news under a
different account or when I am in the its.rpi.edu domain (which I
don't think will accept mail for the *.its.rpi.edu).
Dave
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tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edubob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (05/10/89)
See? It works great - thanks!
olaf@tub.UUCP (Olaf Heimburger) (05/11/89)
In article <BOB.89May9132043@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
bob> I want GNUS (2.11) to insert a header line like "Reply-To:
bob> bob@cis.ohio-state.edu" in each article I post. I think I want to use
bob> gnus-optional-headers and some appropriate hook functions, but I'm not
bob> much of a Lisp hacqeur. Any suggestions would be welcome.
First, I hope you use GNUS (3.11).
Second, there is also the way to define a generic-from for GNUS. Put
the following in your ~/.emacs.
(setq gnus-use-generic-from "cis.ohio-state.edu")
Regards,
--olaf
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