How to forward / reply to my own post?

How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Dave Abrahams]

I often find myself, having just posted or mailed something, needing to
either reply to it or forward it to someone else.  Gnus (or maybe it's
message-mail) leaves around my already-sent messages in buffers so I can
look at them... but is there some way I can reply or forward them?

TIA,

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Dave Abrahams
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Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>:

> I often find myself, having just posted or mailed something, needing
> to either reply to it or forward it to someone else.  Gnus (or maybe
> it's message-mail) leaves around my already-sent messages in buffers
> so I can look at them... but is there some way I can reply or forward
> them?

On email messages I BCC myself, and let it run through the same
mailfiltering as incoming messages.  Ie. sent mail appears in the same
nnimap groups as related incoming mail.

On news postings I usually reply to, or forward, the article from the
group I posted to.

When this hasn't happened (eg. because of slow mail delivery to gmane),
I have used the trick of adding a space and deleting a space, and saving
the article.  Then the article ends up in the nndrafts:draft folder, and
I can reply-to, or forward the article from there.

Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Peter Münster]

On Sat, Jul 23 2011, Steinar Bang wrote:

> I have used the trick of adding a space and deleting a space, and saving
> the article.  Then the article ends up in the nndrafts:draft folder, and
> I can reply-to, or forward the article from there.

You don't need the space-trick: C-c C-d (postpone message).

-- 
           Peter

Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster):

> You don't need the space-trick: C-c C-d (postpone message).

Ah, that works on a buffer holding a message that already has been sent?

Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:28:46 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 

>>>>>> pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster):
>> You don't need the space-trick: C-c C-d (postpone message).

SB> Ah, that works on a buffer holding a message that already has been sent?

It's not smart enough to know that it shouldn't work :)

Ted

Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Thu Sep 29 2011, Ted Zlatanov <tzz-AT-lifelogs.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:28:46 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 
>
>>>>>>> pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster):
>>> You don't need the space-trick: C-c C-d (postpone message).
>
> SB> Ah, that works on a buffer holding a message that already has been sent?
>
> It's not smart enough to know that it shouldn't work :)

But, boy, what a pain.  I have to `C-c C-d', then go to my groups buffer,
refresh so drafts show up, pick the draft, and `F' to follow up.  It
should be easier.

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:32:58 -0400 Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote: 

DA> on Thu Sep 29 2011, Ted Zlatanov <tzz-AT-lifelogs.com> wrote:

>> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:28:46 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 
>> 
>>>>>>>> pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster):
>>>> You don't need the space-trick: C-c C-d (postpone message).
>> 
SB> Ah, that works on a buffer holding a message that already has been sent?
>> 
>> It's not smart enough to know that it shouldn't work :)

DA> But, boy, what a pain.  I have to `C-c C-d', then go to my groups buffer,
DA> refresh so drafts show up, pick the draft, and `F' to follow up.  It
DA> should be easier.

Perhaps, but AFAIK this has not been requested before so what you are
describing is an accidental workflow.

Really, what you want is a new message buffer with the same contents as
one that was already sent, right?

Ted

Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> But, boy, what a pain.  I have to `C-c C-d', then go to my groups buffer,
> refresh so drafts show up, pick the draft, and `F' to follow up.  It
> should be easier.

Yes, I want this, too.  I especially wanted it back when the emacs-devel
mailing list was so slow, and I wanted to follow up to something I'd
just said, but then I had to wait forever, and forgot what I was going
to say.

So I think this should be implemented, but Emacs is in a feature freeze,
so not now.

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Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Thu Oct 06 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:

>> But, boy, what a pain.  I have to `C-c C-d', then go to my groups buffer,
>> refresh so drafts show up, pick the draft, and `F' to follow up.  

Oh, and then I have to delete the draft after sending.

>> It should be easier.
>
> Yes, I want this, too.  I especially wanted it back when the emacs-devel
> mailing list was so slow, and I wanted to follow up to something I'd
> just said, but then I had to wait forever, and forgot what I was going
> to say.
>
> So I think this should be implemented, but Emacs is in a feature freeze,
> so not now.

OK.  While we're mucking about in there, it would be nice if the buffer
name for messages in the drafts could be easily correlated with the
number under which they get saved, too :-)

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Dave Abrahams
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Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Fri, Oct 07 2011,Dave Abrahams wrote:


[snipped 17 lines]

> OK.  While we're mucking about in there, it would be nice if the buffer
> name for messages in the drafts could be easily correlated with the
> number under which they get saved, too :-)

This!  Seconded.

 sivaram
 -- 

Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Sat Jul 23 2011, Steinar Bang <sb-AT-dod.no> wrote:

>>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>:
>
>> I often find myself, having just posted or mailed something, needing
>> to either reply to it or forward it to someone else.  Gnus (or maybe
>> it's message-mail) leaves around my already-sent messages in buffers
>> so I can look at them... but is there some way I can reply or forward
>> them?
>
> On email messages I BCC myself, and let it run through the same
> mailfiltering as incoming messages.  Ie. sent mail appears in the same
> nnimap groups as related incoming mail.

Me too.  It's just that I don't like to put my own messages in INBOX.  I
know I can lower their score so they don't show up, but I occasionally
have to use other mail clients.  Going to some other group to retrieve a
summary buffer for a message I just sent (especially when I'm working
disconnected) is no fun at all.

> On news postings I usually reply to, or forward, the article from the
> group I posted to.
>
> When this hasn't happened (eg. because of slow mail delivery to gmane),
> I have used the trick of adding a space and deleting a space, and saving
> the article.  Then the article ends up in the nndrafts:draft folder, and
> I can reply-to, or forward the article from there.

That's a useful hack, thanks!

Still, there ougt to be a cleaner way...

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>:

> Me too.  It's just that I don't like to put my own messages in INBOX. 

I like to have all messages of threads together.  That should work for
eg. Thunderbird as well, since it understands threads.

> I know I can lower their score so they don't show up, but I
> occasionally have to use other mail clients. 

I just mark them as read, and they disappear visually from gnus, until I
need them to reconstruct a thread.  I have just a few articles in each
nnimap folder ticked.  I use Andy Cohen's `G G' search to find old
discussions these days.

Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Sun Jul 24 2011, Steinar Bang <sb-AT-dod.no> wrote:

>>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>:
>
>> Me too.  It's just that I don't like to put my own messages in INBOX. 
>
> I like to have all messages of threads together.  That should work for
> eg. Thunderbird as well, since it understands threads.
>
>> I know I can lower their score so they don't show up, but I
>> occasionally have to use other mail clients. 
>
> I just mark them as read, and they disappear visually from gnus, until I
> need them to reconstruct a thread.  I have just a few articles in each
> nnimap folder ticked.  I use Andy Cohen's `G G' search to find old
> discussions these days.

Thanks, but I've used Gnus that way in the past, and it doesn't suit my
needs.

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

Re: How to forward / reply to my own post?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> I often find myself, having just posted or mailed something, needing to
> either reply to it or forward it to someone else.  Gnus (or maybe it's
> message-mail) leaves around my already-sent messages in buffers so I can
> look at them... but is there some way I can reply or forward them?

Yes, I've often wanted something like that, but I haven't seen any
obvious intuitive interface for that.

Hm...  perhaps a command like `M-x
gnus-create-ephemeral-group-from-sent-buffers' or something would be
nice?  It would create a summary buffer based on all the message-mode
buffers currently living in Emacs, and you could then do all the normal
stuff (forward, reply, etc) to the messages?

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