From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42920 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sriram Karra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Some MFT doc fixes. 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Its default value is @code{nil}. Example: @@ -366,20 +367,33 @@ '("ding@@gnus.org" "bing@@noose.org")) @end lisp +@vindex message-subscribed-regexps @item message-subscribed-regexps This should be a list of regexps denoting the addresses of mailing lists subscribed to. Default value is @code{nil}. Example: If you want to achieve the same result as above: @lisp (setq message-subscribed-regexps - '("[bd]ing@@\\(gnus\\|noose\\)\\.org")) + '("\\(ding@@gnus\\)\\|\\(bing@@noose\\)\\.org") @end lisp +@vindex message-subscribed-address-functions @item message-subscribed-address-functions This can be a list of functions to be called (one at a time!!) to determine the value of MFT headers. It is advisable that these functions not take any arguments. Default value is @code{nil}. +There is a pre-defined function in Gnus that is a good candidate for +this variable. @code{gnus-find-subscribed-addresses} is a function +that returns a list of addresses corresponding to the groups that have +the @code{subscribed} (@pxref{(gnus)subscribed}) +group parameter set to a non-nil value. This is how you would do it. + +@lisp +(setq message-subscribed-address-functions + '(gnus-find-subscribed-addresses)) +@end lisp + @item message-subscribed-address-file You might be one organised human freak and have a list of addresses of all subscribed mailing lists in a separate file! Then you can just @@ -404,11 +418,12 @@ subscribed to?'' Well, the kind folks at Gnus Towers are working on a database of all known mailing list addresses that can be used for this purpose. Till then, you could, like, insert a MFT header manually, -with the help of @kbd{C-c C-f m} !! +with the help of @kbd{C-c C-f C-m} !! @c @node Honoring an MFT post @subsection Honoring an MFT post +@vindex message-use-mail-followup-to When you followup to a post on a mailing list, and the post has a MFT header, Gnus' action will depend on the value of the variable @code{message-use-mail-followup-to}. This variable can be one of: --=-=-= -- "Have you ever fought an IDEA, Picard?" -- Gowron, Star Trek TNG. --=-=-=--