Re: Mailing list and Gcc header in nnimap groups

["Matt Armstrong" <matt+dated+1007925409.d21349@lickey.com>]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@northernlight.com> wrote:
>> What about comparing Message-ID headers of incoming messages to
>> existing messages, similar to the way nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent
>> works?
>
> Do you mean duplicate suppression?  (See the manual node of that
> name.)
>
>> I don't mind duplicate messages so much if they end up in the
>> same folder, but I don't want to have to set up mailing lists for
>> everything.  Especially since I don't necessarily group messages by
>> mailing list.  For instance, my "ding" folder contains messages
>> forwarded from the newsgroup, mailing list messages, and personal
>> discussions about bugs.  So for me, the "mailing list == folder"
>> assumption doesn't work too well.
>
> Well, Kai's previous suggestion of using the MFT stuff should work
> then.  Have a hook function called during sending that checks for
> subscribed list addresses in To+Cc, and set Gcc accordingly.  Is there
> any send-time hook that gets called before Gcc is processed?
>
> Maybe the checking of addresses could be done only once, and then a
> buffer-local variable could be set to record the result.
>
> For Gcc, it'd be nice to also check Bcc for subscribed addresses.
> But MFT should not look at Bcc.  So maybe they shouldn't be combined
> much after all.

I know from tracing through it that the Gcc: header is gone by the
time message.el sees it -- which makes some sense since message.el
wouldn't know what to do with it.

The MFT code could be re-factored such that it is easier for Gnus to
use it for this purpose though.


-- 
matt