Re: keep Gcc: field in buffer after sending

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:03:53 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: 

j> Gentlemen, I note the Gcc: field disappears from the buffer after a
j> message is sent.

j> But often I go back to that buffer and make some alterations and send
j> another similar message, only later to discover a copy was not saved
j> on disk.

j> There ought to be a variable to stop this senseless abduction of the
j> Gcc: field upon message-send-and-exit, etc.

I think this is useful.  Try the following simple patch, setting
gnus-mgs-keep-gcc-header to t.  Note it will leave the Gcc header in
outgoing messages, which is not an optimal solution, but doing it right
would require a lot more changes.

Ted

Index: gnus-msg.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/gnus-msg.el,v
retrieving revision 7.63
diff -u -r7.63 gnus-msg.el
--- gnus-msg.el 25 Nov 2007 18:25:11 -0000      7.63
+++ gnus-msg.el 11 Dec 2007 16:28:56 -0000
@@ -86,6 +86,11 @@
   :group 'gnus-message
   :type 'boolean)
 
+(defcustom gnus-msg-keep-gcc-header nil
+  "*If non-nil, keep the Gcc header in messages."
+  :group 'gnus-message
+  :type 'boolean)
+
 (defcustom gnus-crosspost-complaint
   "Hi,
 
@@ -1630,7 +1635,8 @@
            groups group method group-art
            mml-externalize-attachments)
        (when gcc
-         (message-remove-header "gcc")
+         (unless gnus-msg-keep-gcc-header
+           (message-remove-header "gcc"))
          (widen)
          (setq groups (message-unquote-tokens
                        (message-tokenize-header gcc " ,")))