Re: gnus-add-to-list doesn't work for all groups

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> This requires using the `a' command to start composing a mail.

I think, I did so in my original mail starting this thread.  [This
turned out to be wrong; see below.]

> Moreover, the function to send a mail should be one of the message.el
> functions that understands `message-send-actions'.  See its value in a
> mail beffer; it should have this element:
>
> (gnus-inews-add-to-address "GroupName")

Ok, so now I've hit `a' in my ding group and got a new *unsent mail*
message-mode buffer with this value.

,----
| message-send-actions is a variable defined in `message.el'.
| Its value is
| ((when
|      (gnus-buffer-exists-p "*Summary nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.mailinglists.ding*")
|    (with-current-buffer "*Summary nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.mailinglists.ding*" nil))
|  (gnus-inews-add-to-address "nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.mailinglists.ding"))
| 
| Local in buffer *unsent mail*; global value is nil
| 
| Documentation:
| A list of actions to be performed upon successful sending of a message.
`----

So that looks good to me.  In that mail, I added myself as To, and now I
should be queried if my own address should be added as to-list for my
ding group.

I've done edebug-defun on `gnus-inews-add-to-address' and am now sending
off the mail with `message-send-and-exit'...  Gosh, it worked, I was
queried!!

OMG, now I know what I was doing wrong all the time.  When I want to
compose a mail to a list it goes like:

    1. `a'         ; Shit, empty To.  Don't want to hand-edit!
    2. `C-x k RET' ; Kill the *unsent mail* buffer
    3. `RET'       ; Select some random article from the summary
    4. Move point to To: ding@gnus.org and `RET' which creates a new
       *unsent mail* buffer with To prefilled.

So, yes, that's not `a'. ;-)

However, maybe it would make sense if `RET' on an email address had the
same effect as `a' rather than `m'...

Bye,
Tassilo