Re: Getting rid of the Fcc: field, and other compose problems.

[gphilip@india.com]

Eric, Slackrat, Adam,

  Thanks to you all for your replies. The "From:" field problem has been
  solved (see the solution below), but the "Fcc:" field is stubborn and
  I have given in to its demand.

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:59:36 +0530, G wrote:
>
>> 1. The "Fcc:" field is populated with a non-existant directory, and I am
>> prompted whether I want to create this maildir.
>
> What have you done to get an Fcc: field? I don't think you get one by
> default? (You probably get a Gcc: field for archiving sent messages,
> though).

The sad thing is that I do not know :( . I finally caved in and said
"yes" to the question "Create the maildir?", because I wanted to send
mail using Gnus. Now a copy of each mail I send using Gnus is written to
this new maildir 'sent' folder.

>
>> 2. The "From:" field is populated by a junk email id, constructed from
>> my username on the local machine and the local machine's hostname. I
>> have to edit this field also every time so that it is my proper email
>> address. 
>
> Does it help to set the variables user-full-name and user-mail-address?
>

It helped to set these, but only as a static measure; these wouldn't
change depending on which mail I am replying to. 

>> ;; (setq gnus-posting-styles
>>        '(((header "to" "myfirstaddress@gmail.com")
>>           (address "myfirstaddress@gmail.com"))
>
> I think you've got a level of parens too many there? (Comparing to the
> example in the Posting Styles node in the manual)

No, the parens are OK here.

After a bit of digging around the manuals and the source code of
gnus/message.el, I tried a hunch, and it worked! Here is what works:


(setq gnus-posting-styles
        '(((header "to" "myfirstaddress@gmail.com")
           (From "myfirstaddress@gmail.com"))
          ((header "to" "myotheraddress@gmail.com")
           (From "myotheraddress@gmail.com"))))

That is, specifying "From" instead of "address" does the trick.

Thanks once again for your help. 

Regards,
Philip