Fcc'd stuff into r/w Gnus group?

Fcc'd stuff into r/w Gnus group?

[Kai Großjohann]

A friend of mine wants to use Fcc to store all outgoing messages into
a file.  This is done in addition to Gcc'ing the message into the
appropriate group.

But how to read the file again?  With `G f', you get a read-only
group.  Is there any way of getting a writable group with the contents
of that file?  I think it is not a good idea to create an nnfolder
group for this, is it?

One possibility would be to set up a `directory' mail source for
the (renamed) OUTmail.box and OUTnews.box files, I think.  Do you
think that would work?

kai
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Re: Fcc'd stuff into r/w Gnus group?

[David S. Goldberg]

> One possibility would be to set up a `directory' mail source for
> the (renamed) OUTmail.box and OUTnews.box files, I think.  Do you
> think that would work?

This is, in fact exactly what I do when I use message-mode from
outside of gnus.  Since I don't need it very often, I'm too lazy to
find/install/test the neat bits that have been posted that call
gnus-group-mail from other packages.  So when I end up in message-mode
as a result of filing a bug report or clicking on a mailto url in w3,
I have the following put in an FCC header that writes to a spool file
in my incoming directory mail source (I use procmail for other
incoming mail processing).

(add-hook 'message-header-setup-hook
	  (lambda ()
	    (let ((isgcc (save-excursion
			   (goto-char (point-min))
			   (re-search-forward "^Gcc:" nil t))))
	      (if (not isgcc)
		  (message-add-header 
		   "Fcc: /afs/rcf/user/dsg/.Mail/incoming/inbox.spool")))))
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Re: Fcc'd stuff into r/w Gnus group?

[Brian May]

>>>>> "David" == David S Goldberg <dsg@mitre.org> writes:

    David> This is, in fact exactly what I do when I use message-mode
    David> from outside of gnus.  Since I don't need it very often,
    David> I'm too lazy to find/install/test the neat bits that have
    David> been posted that call gnus-group-mail from other packages.

What "neat bits" have been posted to do this? I would really like to
be able to do this...

    David> So when I end up in message-mode as a result of filing a
    David> bug report or clicking on a mailto url in w3, I have the
    David> following put in an FCC header that writes to a spool file
    David> in my incoming directory mail source (I use procmail for
    David> other incoming mail processing).

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Re: Fcc'd stuff into r/w Gnus group?

[Kevin Falcone]

>>>>> "BM" == Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au> writes:
>>>>> "David" == David S Goldberg <dsg@mitre.org> writes:
  David> This is, in fact exactly what I do when I use message-mode
  David> from outside of gnus.  Since I don't need it very often,
  David> I'm too lazy to find/install/test the neat bits that have
  David> been posted that call gnus-group-mail from other packages.

  BM> What "neat bits" have been posted to do this? I would really like to
  BM> be able to do this...

I have the following in my .emacs, which seem to do what you
requested.  Unfortunately, I don't know who deserves credit for these.

;;make gnus the only mail mode
(require 'message)
(require 'gnus-msg)

(define-mail-user-agent 'gnus-user-agent
  'gnus-mail 'message-send-and-exit
  'message-kill-buffer 'message-send-hook)

(defun gnus-mail (&rest args)
  "Start editing a mail message to be sent gnus style.
  Use message mode as the underlying agent."
    (unless (and (fboundp 'gnus-alive-p) (gnus-alive-p))
      (gnus-no-server)
      (gnus-group-suspend))
    (gnus-setup-message 'message (apply 'message-mail args)))

(setq mail-user-agent 'gnus-user-agent)

-kevin

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