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From: Pankaj Jangid <p4j@j4d.net>
To: Malcolm Purvis <malcolm@purvis.id.au>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to change from address while in message buffer?
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 06:38:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0100016f7eba55ec-dd0e8be4-534d-47c5-b676-240b20d39580-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2d0bwb5lj.fsf@purvis.id.au> (Malcolm Purvis's message of "Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:08:40 +1100")

Malcolm Purvis <malcolm@purvis.id.au> writes:
>> I am in message buffer composing an email. In this scenario, how can
>> I change the *From* header to something other than my default
>> user-mail-address.
>
> The From header in the message buffer is just plain text, so in the
> worst case you can just manually change the address.

I have tried this and embarrassed myself a couple of times by sending the
email via my personal email address instead of official.

> If you split your mail from different addresses into different groups
> (say home and work), then you can configure the variable
> gnus-posting-styles to set the default From address for each 
> group, as well as signatures, outgoing SMTP server, etc.

Yes. This works fine. I am using this. My only problem is when I am
already in *unsent message* buffer and want to change "From:" header
value.

Regards,
-- 
Pankaj Jangid



  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-07  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-06  9:57 Pankaj Jangid
2020-01-06 21:42 ` dick.r.chiang
2020-01-06 22:33   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-01-06 23:39     ` dick.r.chiang
2020-01-07  4:12       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-01-07  6:29         ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-01-07 17:32           ` If you read this instead of my name it worked for me
2020-01-07 17:43           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-01-07  6:28   ` Vincent Bernat
2020-01-09  1:55     ` 황병희
2020-01-10  5:59       ` Bob Newell
2020-01-18  1:59         ` 황병희
2020-01-07  7:58   ` Vegard Vesterheim
2020-01-07 10:44     ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-01-07 11:41       ` Vegard Vesterheim
2020-01-07 16:19         ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-01-06 22:08 ` Malcolm Purvis
2020-01-07  6:38   ` Pankaj Jangid [this message]
2020-02-07 13:42     ` Helmut Waitzmann
2020-02-07 22:09     ` Helmut Waitzmann

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