Re: Mailing to several people.

["Steven L. Baur" <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

    Lars> After fixing a couple of bugs, this is what happens in
    Lars> September 0.17:

    Lars> 1) A mail reply buffer is set up the normal way based on the
    Lars> first process marked article.

    Lars> 2) All subsequent articles are yanked with citation lines
    Lars> (hopefully) now inserted where they should be.  (This didn't
    Lars> work in 0.16.)

    Lars> That's yucky.  But it's not self-evident what should happen
    Lars> here.

    Lars> I think all From, To and Cc lines from the articles should
    Lars> be catenated as if replying to a single article that had
    Lars> quite long From, To and Cc lines:

    Lars> Article A:

    Lars> From: larsi Cc: ding To: per

    Lars> Article B:

    Lars> From: gnus-bug Cc: Steve

    Lars>  =>

    Lars> From: larsi, gnus-bug Cc: ding, Steve To: Per

    Lars> And then Gnus uses the normal methods to find out what
    Lars> headers it should put in the reply mail.

    Lars> What about References, In-Reply-To and Subject, though?

All existing references should be catenated.  Add all the collected
message-ids to them.  Since this ties previously unconnected threads
together it will make for some interesting later threading decisions.

In-Reply-To, take the first article collected.

Subject, take the subject from the first article collected.  You could
perhaps add a configurable string to it like ``, etc.'' or ``-reply'' :-).

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steve@miranova.com baur