Re: Gnus Multiple Roles

[Rasmus]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> Ah, interesting. Maybe it's time to let Gnus talk directly to the server
>>> (though the msmtp hack also on that wiki page still works just fine).
>>>
>>> That would mean relying entirely on posting styles, though, which is a
>>> bit of pain because I really like being able to just hit "m" in the
>>> *Group* buffer. It's never quite felt right to me that I still have to
>>> compose messages "from" a group, with "C-u a". Anyway, not a great big
>>> deal, either way.
>>
>> I have a hack that I use which gives a menu of profiles based on the
>> posting styles.
>>
>>         https://gitlab.com/snippets/6486
>>         
>> It is sort of elaborate, and one day I, or someone else, need to add this
>> to Gnus.  It’s missing.  The issue is that it’s not quite in the spirit of
>> posting styles as posting styles should probably be complete.  But I guess
>> you could add a (profile-name NAME) to the posting style which would
>> automatically make the posting style available via some menu.
>
> I've always meant to look at gnus-pers and/or gnus-alias, as well --
> they seem to be solutions for this problem exactly.

Whichever one of them I used was an alternative to posting styles.
Nonetheless they might work together.

Rasmus

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