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Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> wrote:
> I forget the status of Gnus support for generating Mail-Followup-To:
> headers.  Is somebody planning to implement this?

I am.  I wasn't planning to do it as a plain hook function because I
figured it should be on by default, but I have the impression hook
variables ought to be nil by default.  That will make it a bit
hairier, but still doable.

I'm thinking something in gnus-msg.el, during initialization of a new
message buffer, can detect when there is a to-list or to-address
parameter for the current group; if so, it'll add a header field like
"X-Gnus-Generate-MFT: yes" (by default; it could be disabled by
setting some variable).  Then when we send the message, if that field
is present, we remove it, and if there is also no existing MFT, then
we add one based on To+Cc.

If you want to have a go at it, feel free.  I'm not sure when I'd get
around to it.


paul