Re: Sending patch with Gnus

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (3) Now open up the mbox file in emacs and edit the first email so it
>>     has a nice covering letter explaining why you're spamming the
>>     mailing list.
>>
>> (4) Now do 'G f tmp.mbox' from the *Group* buffer. If everything looks
>>     hunky-dory (and threaded!), do the 'S D r' thang.
>
> Oh, OK, now I think I understand what all y'all are saying.  So you have
> a mbox file (possibly created by git) containing many messages.

or possibly a mbox buffer...

> You want to look at all the messages, and possibly edit them, and then
> send off all the messages separately?

That's it.

> That sounds quite useful, yes.

Cool, but a volunteer is needed to make it really usefull ;)

> But couldn't this be implemented as an ephemeral nnfolder group?

I don't know.

As I said in another post, I was thinking about nndraft group mainly
because you can edit a message, and send all messages in the group,
etc...

> That would allow you to edit any or all of the articles (for instance,
> you'd want a command to add a References header to all messages
> following the "cover letter", and you may want to fiddle around with
> the patch series itself (perhaps `B DEL' one patch in the series).

`D e' in nndraft group.

> And then you'd just need a command to send all the messages in the
> summary buffer, and you'd be done.  :-)

`D S' in nndraft group.

Thanks
-- 
Francis