Re: [gnu.emacs.gnus] Forcing the sender address in Posting Styles

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> (defun message-make-fqdn ()
>>   "My  hacked message-id."
>>   "reader.newsguy.com")
>
>> I want to do this in the Group Params of a group devoted to
>> reader_dsl, where From: and a few other things are already setup in
>> Group Params.
>>
>> ((gcc-self . t)
>>  (posting-style
>>   (name "Harry Putnam")
>>   (address "<reader@dslextreme.com>")))
>>
>>
>> How can I stick the hack in there too?
>
> Not sure if this will work but you could try the (VARIABLE FORM) trick
> described in the manual -- something like
>
> (dummy (defun message-make-fqdn () "" "reader.newsguy.com"))
>
> This should evaluate the form each time you enter the group.  I don't
> know how to reset it back short of having such a parameter in each
> group.  If you use topics you could add the default to the parameters
> of the top-level topic.

Oh, I always forget about that dummy technique.  I've used it before
too, but you point out a more serious flaw in my approach.  I hadn't
even considered it would need resetting.  But of course it would.  I
wonder if something could be tied to C-c C-c that would reset it?

Something like you might do in shell with an if/else