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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'.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen