Re: Mail-Followup-To interaction with gnus-summary-followup

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Paul J Collins <sneakums@sto-kerrig.org> writes:
> The problem in this case is that Mail-Followup-To is not being set the
> the list software, just on an ad-hoc basis by a couple of users.

Mailing lists aren't supposed to set Mail-Followup-To; that would
defeat its purpose.

> Having updated Gnus from CVS just now, I note that it's asking me
> whether to obey Mail-Followup-To after I type `f'.  If I say y, it
> uses the poster's Mail-Followup-To, and I get no Cc.

As it should be, I think.

> If I say n, I get the posters own address in To: and Cc: is set to
> their value of Mail-Followup-To.

That is indeed broken.

> I would really like things to work as they did previously; typing `f'
> with message-use-followup-to set to `nil' or a response of `n' to the
> query results in the To: field being set to the value of to-list.

to-list isn't used for followups, to-address is.  Anyway, here's the
fix.  (Sorry it's not a proper patch, but I haven't learned CVS yet,
so it wouldn't be a patch against an up-to-date version anyway.)  In
message.el, in message-get-reply-headers, look for:
    (if (or (not wide)
            to-address)
and change it to:
    (if (and (or (not message-use-followup-to)
                 (not mft))
             (or (not wide)
                 to-address))
or some logical equivalent.  Can someone commit this?  Here'a a
Changelog entry:
2001-02-17  Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu>

	* message.el: Fix bug with Mail-Followup-To/to-address interaction.


paul