From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79849 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting rid of the Fcc: field, and other compose problems. Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:07:23 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87obyusvis.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> References: <87y5xz756n.fsf@singlemalt.localdomain> <87sjo7rn3v.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87ehzqlv61.fsf@singlemalt.gphilip.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315508880 8522 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2011 19:08:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 19:08:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28143@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 08 21:07:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1jx4-0004Ee-9P for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:07:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R1jx0-0002lW-5q; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:07:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R1jwy-0002lN-Uc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R1jwx-0006Uw-2B for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R1jwu-00049g-6a for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:07:44 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1jwp-00044u-V7 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:07:39 +0200 Original-Received: from 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk ([95.166.24.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:07:39 +0200 Original-Received: from asjo by 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:07:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 62 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Daisies, Once upon a time in the north (moi caprice) X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97,Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79849 Archived-At: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:26:54 +0530, gphilip@india.com wrote: > 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 :( . Maybe you could try showing us what the exact value of the header is, and what configuration you are using? It might jig some hard to reach piece of memory... >> 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. No, how could they? :-) >>> ;; (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. Really? I have one level less than you have in my posting styles; the manual does as well. > 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. I find that hard to believe, but, hey, if it works, it works. ("address" works just fine in my posting styles.) Best regards, Adam -- "What do you feel Adam Sjøgren When you let go of the wheel" asjo@koldfront.dk