gnus-5.8.7 Followup sometimes omits To: addr

gnus-5.8.7 Followup sometimes omits To: addr

[Chris Shenton]

gnus-5.8.7 on FreeBSD-4.0-STABLE, sent in emacs-20.4, read in emacs-20.7.

Found something odd recently. A friend sent mail, I replied from one
account and had another CC'd, then Followuped (f) to this from my
other account and saw his address disappeared from the To and CC list.

I've been able to replicate it. Here's the message, sent by
cshenton@uucom.com and I'm reading it as chris@shenton.org:

    X-From-Line: cshenton@uucom.com Tue Jul 11 23:14:24 2000
    Return-Path: <cshenton@uucom.com>
    Delivered-To: chris@shenton.org
    Received: (qmail 16256 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2000 23:14:24 -0000
    Received: from samizdat.uucom.com (198.202.217.54)
      by thanatos.shenton.org with SMTP; 11 Jul 2000 23:14:24 -0000
    Received: (from cshenton@localhost)
            by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA04372;
            Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:06:24 -0400 (EDT)
    To: Chris Hill <jchill@monochrome.org>
    Cc: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>
    Subject: Re: Send me a message, home and work
    References: <v03007800b591568662b2@[192.168.1.3]>
    From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>
    Date: 11 Jul 2000 19:06:24 -0400
    In-Reply-To: Chris Hill's message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:57:52 -0400"
    X-Gnus-Mail-Source: file:/home/chris/Mailbox
    Message-ID: <lfzonos1vz.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>
    User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.4
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Lines: 2
    Xref: thanatos.shenton.org in.chris:8298

    Could you try that again and send a CC to your own addr?


Here are the headers gnus provides when I hit 'f' (followup/replyall):

    To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>
    Subject: Re: Send me a message, home and work
    References: <v03007800b591568662b2@[192.168.1.3]>
            <lfzonos1vz.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>
    Gcc: nnml+archive:mail.2000-07
    --text follows this line--

Notice it's remove the To: address I was trying to reply to.
At both locations I'm using gnus-5.8.7.

Too many people named 'chris' causing problems? :-(

Re: gnus-5.8.7 Followup sometimes omits To: addr

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> writes:

[...]

>     To: Chris Hill <jchill@monochrome.org>
>     Cc: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>
>     Subject: Re: Send me a message, home and work
>     References: <v03007800b591568662b2@[192.168.1.3]>
>     From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>
>     Date: 11 Jul 2000 19:06:24 -0400

[...]

> 
> Too many people named 'chris' causing problems? :-(

It could be the reason.  Your login name is chris (user-login-name),
so it omits all people named chris.

To solve the problem, you can explicitly set
message-dont-reply-to-names. e.g.

(setq message-dont-reply-to-names 
        "chris@shenton\\.org\\|cshenton@uucom\\.com")

ShengHuo