Re: Archiving messages and nnir

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:

Hi Didier,

>   I've just ran on a small inconvenience a minute ago.
>
> - My mails are stored on a imap server.
> - I wanted to reply to an old message, so I did a 'G G' on a group, and
>   found the message in question.
> - I replied to it, but the X-Draft-From header is set to 'nnir
>   something' instead of the original group the message came from.
>
> As a consequence, Gnus could not archive my reply properly. I have no
> time to look into this right now, so if someone wants to beat me to
> it...

When you've found the message you've been looking for in the nnir
buffer, hit `A W' or `A T' on it and you'll switch to that message (or
complete thread) in the original imap group.  Then all your posting
styles and archive settings apply as usual.

,----[ (info "(gnus)Basic Usage") ]
|    The `nnir' group made in this way is an `ephemeral' group, and some
| changes are not permanent: aside from reading, moving, and deleting,
| you can't act on the original article. But there is an alternative: you
| can _warp_ to the original group for the article on the current line
| with `A W', aka `gnus-warp-to-article'. Even better, the function
| `gnus-summary-refer-thread', bound by default in summary buffers to `A
| T', will first warp to the original group before it works its magic and
| includes all the articles in the thread. From here you can read, move
| and delete articles, but also copy them, alter article marks, whatever.
| Go nuts.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo