Re: Sending patch with Gnus

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

Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick@gmail.com> writes:

> (3) Now open up the mbox file in emacs and edit the first email so it
>     has a nice covering letter explaining why you're spamming the
>     mailing list.
>
> (4) Now do 'G f tmp.mbox' from the *Group* buffer. If everything looks
>     hunky-dory (and threaded!), do the 'S D r' thang.

Oh, OK, now I think I understand what all y'all are saying.  So you have
a mbox file (possibly created by git) containing many messages.  You
want to look at all the messages, and possibly edit them, and then send
off all the messages separately?

That sounds quite useful, yes.  But couldn't this be implemented as an
ephemeral nnfolder group?  That would allow you to edit any or all of
the articles (for instance, you'd want a command to add a References
header to all messages following the "cover letter", and you may want to
fiddle around with the patch series itself (perhaps `B DEL' one patch in
the series).

And then you'd just need a command to send all the messages in the
summary buffer, and you'd be done.  :-)

So this wouldn't really be a gnus-dired thing, but basically just a
summary minor mode with additional commands for editing/mangling the
nnfolder. 

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