Re: [CODE] Editing and resending an existing mail.

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Matthieu Moy <matthieumNOSPAM@yahoo.com.invalid> writes:

> Some time ago, I had written a  mail, and wanted to send it to someone
> else. 
>
> There is the function Resend Message, but it does not allow edition of
> the  article,  and  I  also  wanted to  change  something  inside  the
> message. I knew it in mutt (M-e), but did not find it in Gnus.

I use gnus-summary-supersede-article to do a similar job. Maybe its
name is confusing for such a job or it cancels the existing article.

> So, I wrote a little function to do that. Here it is. 
>
> On fr.comp.applications.emacs, some other people were interested in
> it, so, I wonder if this could be integrated in gnus itself. (isn't
> mutt supposed to be included in Gnus ;-)

You need sign a form before the code is formally included in Gnus.
I'll send you the request form.

[...]

> 	(message-narrow-to-head-1)
> 	(message-remove-header "Message-ID")
> 	(goto-char (point-max))
> 	;(forward-char -1)
> 	(insert "Message-ID: " (message-make-message-id) "\n")

This line is not necessary, because Gnus will generate it when
sending the message.


> 	(re-search-forward "^To:\\|^Newsgroups:")
> 	(forward-char 1)

Maybe we can replace these two lines with

 	(re-search-forward "^To: *\\|^Newsgroups: *" nil 'move)

ShengHuo