Custom headers in gnus for replies

Custom headers in gnus for replies

[Andi Kleen]

Hi,

I'm using gnus to read mailing lists which have been gated to newsgroups.
The news gateways are one way - when I want to reply I have to mail
to the original recipients.

The gateway software allows this by inserting headers like

X-Mailing-List: list-address
X-Original-Cc:  original cc list

Currently I always edit the reply mails by hand and cut and paste the list
from X-Original-cc and X-Mailing-List. Due to the arcane mail header syntax
this sometimes leads to corrupted lists, especially when the cc list 
is complex and was spread over multiple lines.

Is there a way to get gnus to do this for me? Basically I just want 
it to interpret X-Mailing-List as another From/Cc (to be inserted
in the recipient list with group reply) and process the X-Original-Cc
like a normal cc header.

Is there any easy way to do this? 

Thanks in advance,

-Andi

Re: Custom headers in gnus for replies

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:

> I'm using gnus to read mailing lists which have been gated to newsgroups.
> The news gateways are one way - when I want to reply I have to mail
> to the original recipients.
>
> The gateway software allows this by inserting headers like
>
> X-Mailing-List: list-address
> X-Original-Cc:  original cc list
>
> Currently I always edit the reply mails by hand and cut and paste the list
> from X-Original-cc and X-Mailing-List. Due to the arcane mail header syntax
> this sometimes leads to corrupted lists, especially when the cc list 
> is complex and was spread over multiple lines.
>
> Is there a way to get gnus to do this for me? Basically I just want 
> it to interpret X-Mailing-List as another From/Cc (to be inserted
> in the recipient list with group reply) and process the X-Original-Cc
> like a normal cc header.
>
> Is there any easy way to do this? 

There is now.  I've extended `message-get-reply-headers' to take a
list of headers to be picked at.  So you can say:

(defun andi-wide-reply ()
  (message-get-reply-headers t nil '("to" "cc" "from" "x-mailing-list"
                                     "x-original-cc")))
(setq message-wide-reply-to-function 'andi-wide-reply)


And that's untested code, but it might work.  :-)

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