Re: How to change from address while in message buffer?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

dick.r.chiang@gmail.com writes:

> PJ> how can I change the *From* header to something other than my default
> PJ> user-mail-address.
>
> Contextually setting the *From* header based on whichever imap account I was
> reading from proved a fairly tough problem.  I eventually got it right, but
> not before embarrassingly sending replies from my personal email address to my
> professional one.
>
> I am very curious how others deal with what must be a very common problem.
>
> My soup-to-nuts email solution resides at
> https://github.com/dickmao/gnus-imap-walkthrough and the 30 lines of elisp
> that handle context-sensitive *From* are at
> https://github.com/dickmao/gnus-imap-walkthrough/blob/c1246d335e7029f1ed4e4f3ae9db8f258748b791/dot.gnus#L16-L44
>
> I suspect though that you're looking for a simpler solution.

I'm almost certainly misunderstanding something here, but can't you do
this with posting styles? When I want to compose a message with a
certain set of styles (including the "From" header) I put point on the
group I want to use to trigger the styles, and use "C-u m" instead of
regular "m".

Admittedly, this is actually kind of annoying and I wish there were a
cleaner way of doing it. But it works just fine.

No?

Eric