Re: Post with different address?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Anders Melchiorsen <postmaster@and.nospam.kampsax.k-net.dk> writes:

> I have set some posting styles to let me use a different, spammer
> confusing e-mail address (see above) when posting to widely spread
> groups or mailing lists. However, I still like my unaltered address to 
> be used in personal e-mails.

This is not a good idea.  The From header in all news articles should
be valid.

> The problem is that if I reply (as opposed to follow up) in a
> newsgroup the obfuscated address is still used. Is there a way to,
> within the same group, use a different address for replies than for
> follow ups?

Yes.  You can check the dynamically bound variables
`message-this-is-{news,mail}'.  I've now documented this in the
manual.

Doing stuff like this still means sending out mails with invalid From
header when doing combined messages.

I do receive some mails with invalid From headers, and I never
notice.  When they bounce, I let them drop.  I do not try to figure
out what the real address is supposed to be.  I'm probably not the
only one, so mangling From headers is not only a bad idea for
ideological reasons, but in practice as well.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen