Re: problem following up to this very mailing list

[Leonidas Tsampros]

Rud1ger Sch1erz <nospam_tigre@yahoo.es> writes:

> Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> writes:
>
>> I have never faced the problem described in the subject again. Generally
>> doing a followup and yank (F) or wide reply and yank (S W) works for all
>> of the other mailing lists and groups I'm subscribed to.
>
> I experience the same problem as you. I wonder why nobody else is
> complaining. This list seems not to set the reply-to header to
> info-gnus-english@gnu.org. So there is just the from-address of the
> author. Thus followup or reply just uses the address of the author
> instead of info-gnus-english@gnu.org.

Thanks! Nice to know that I'm not alone in this. IMHO, I don't think
that this is a problem of the list, although your observation regarding
the Reply-to (it's optional, right?) header is probably correct.

I'm thinking that maybe we have something common in our setup that
changes/mangles the follow up behavior for this specific group. For
example I have a couple of other imap groups for which I receive mail
with no Reply-to header, and F works just fine (wide reply + yank). It's
only this group that I have the problem with.

>
> I fixed this for me using the posting styles.
>
> As I check for a couple of different email ids, I've defined this
> function to determine to-from context:
>
> (defun  is-about-email-id-p ( is-about-pattern)
>   "used in gnus-posting-style, check if it's about `pattern' email"
>   (save-excursion
>     (when (message-mail-p)
>       (when (get-buffer gnus-article-buffer)
>         (set-buffer gnus-article-buffer)
>         (let ((toheader (message-fetch-field "to")))
>           (let ((fromheader (message-fetch-field "from")))
>             (or (and toheader (string-match is-about-pattern toheader))
>                     (and fromheader (string-match is-about-pattern 
> fromheader)))
>             ))))))
>
> Which I then use in gnus-posting-styles to determine
> info-gnus-english@gnu.org:
>
>         ((is-about-email-id-p "info-gnus-english@gnu\.org")
>          (to "info-gnus-english@gnu\.org")
>          (name "Rud1ger Sch1erz")
>          (address "nospam_tigre@yahoo.es")
>          (organization "Joe Cool's Data Club")
>          )
>
> HTH,
> Rudiger
>
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