Canceling with Gnus 5.6.4?

Canceling with Gnus 5.6.4?

[Kai Grossjohann]

I think this has come up before but I don't think there was any real
conclusion.  Now that I've stumbled into the problem, too, I'll add by
twopence, as well.

If a posting has a Sender header and if the variable user-mail-address
is set, then message-cancel-news checks to see if they're the same and
doesn't allow canceling if they're different.

IMVHO, this is completely bogus.  Why on earth would I want to set
user-mail-address if it was the same as Gnus computes by default in
the first place?  And message-make-sender returns pretty much exactly
what Gnus computes by default.

I set by mail address to be "grossjohann@..." rather than
"grossjoh@..." because I find the former to be more mnemonic.  Am I to
be handicapped because of this?

Also, at our site, we prefer mail address "jrl@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de"
rather than "jrl@HOST.cs.uni-dortmund.de" where HOST is the machine
one happens to sit at that day, because "ls6" is a canonic description
of our working group.

kai
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Re: Canceling with Gnus 5.6.4?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> If a posting has a Sender header and if the variable user-mail-address
> is set, then message-cancel-news checks to see if they're the same and
> doesn't allow canceling if they're different.

Yup.  Fix in Gnus v5.6.5.

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