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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: followup in mail-and-news backends
Date: 25 Sep 1999 08:11:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3btared1i.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "26 Aug 1999 10:42:19 +0200"

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I read mail using nnimap, which is a mail-and-news backend.  Ie, it
> passes `post-mail' to `gnus-declare-backend'.
> 
> When doing a followup in such a group, the To and Cc headers are
> filled out, but no Newsgroups header is put in the new message.  Why
> not? 

nnimap is a `post-mail' backend, but each message is considered 
to be either mail or news.  That is, no message is considered to be
both at the same time.  If a message is to be considered news, then
`nnimap-request-type' for that message has to return `news'.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


      reply	other threads:[~1999-09-25  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-26  8:42 Kai Großjohann
1999-09-25  6:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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