Re: Questions about mail forwarding

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:06:35 +0300, mihkel wrote:
>
>>     (setq gnus-summary-mail-forward 1)
>
> Setting a variable with the same name as a function doesn't change what
> the function does.
>
> ,----[ C-h f gnus-summary-mail-forward RET ]
> | gnus-summary-mail-forward is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> | `gnus-msg.el'.
> | 
> | (gnus-summary-mail-forward &optional ARG POST)
> | 
> | Forward the current message(s) to another user.
> | If process marks exist, forward all marked messages;
> | if ARG is nil, see `message-forward-as-mime' and `message-forward-show-mml';
> | if ARG is 1, decode the message and forward directly inline;
> | if ARG is 2, forward message as an rfc822 MIME section;
> | if ARG is 3, decode message and forward as an rfc822 MIME section;
> | if ARG is 4, forward message directly inline;
> | otherwise, use flipped `message-forward-as-mime'.
> | If POST, post instead of mail.
> | For the "inline" alternatives, also see the variable
> | `message-forward-ignored-headers'.
> `----
>
> What you want to do is to pass the optional ARG to the function.
>
> I.e. you press: C-u 1 C-c C-f instead of just C-c C-f to forward the
> email.

Or, also per the documentation, you can set message-forward-as-mime to
nil.


>> 2. I want to have only some headers included in the forwarded mail. So I
>> used the following snippet:
>
>>     (setq message-included-forward-headers
>>      "^Subject:\\|^To:\\|^Cc:\\|^From:\\|^Date:")

Unfortunately the variable now appears to be
message-forward-ignored-headers, which is really doing the opposite of
what you want.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)