From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87507 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Mann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: forwarding mail Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:06:54 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493312881 27066 195.159.176.226 (27 Apr 2017 17:08:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:08:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (darwin) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m35722@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 27 19:07:58 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from mxfilter-048034.atla03.us.yomura.com ([107.189.48.34]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d3mtX-0006ww-Kd for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:07:55 +0200 X-Yomura-MXScrub: 1.0 Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (unknown [129.7.128.208]) by mxfilter-048034.atla03.us.yomura.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 110148e1-2b6c-11e7-8ed1-b499baa2b07a; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1d3mss-0006dw-EZ; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1d3msq-0006dE-1N for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1d3mso-0008CG-W5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:07:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1d3msl-0003fg-GO for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:07:07 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d3msb-00060x-0k for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:06:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 56 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:w2yabtTGVBM6rZ9uur6CWHFJpaI= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87507 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > David Mann wrote: > >> When I forward mail in Gnus using C-c C-f the >> quoted email is in raw source format, >> including a lot of junk I don't want to >> forward. When I reply to mail, none of that >> stuff is included. > > If you check out the help for > `gnus-summary-mail-forward', you see the are > some vars mentioned to setup the default > behavior. > > It also tells how to experiment with different > options using the `universal-argument', or C-u, > to provide an argument to the function. > > E.g., in the summary buffer, try > > C-u 1 C-c C-f > > all 1 to 4! I went ahead and tried all the options. They all open the message in raw mode. Depending on the mail reader, the forwarded message appears normally or it arrives showing the raw header stuff. I note though that gnus handles all these options fine and the arrived forwarded message looks normal regardless of the prefix argument used. > >> Is there anyway to make mail forwarding act >> the same as other mail replying commands? > > Yeah, I mean, what does it really mean to > "forward" a mail (or post)? > > I suppose what I do is, after viewing the > message, in the article buffer, I do > `gnus-summary-followup-with-original' and then > edit the headers to send the mail/post wherever > I want. This option doesn't show the raw source, and is probably easiest. I'm using it to post this response. It's just surprising to me that C-c C-f always opens the message to be forwarded in raw mode. I'm not sure what the utility of that is. It would be nice if gnus-summary-followup-with-original left the To: field blank to be filled in. That would make it comparable to fowarding in other mail-readers. Thanks to all the responders to my question. David