Replying to multiple mails

Replying to multiple mails

[Edvard Majakari]

Hmm. Let's assume person foo has sent me 4 mails. I want to reply to
them all, but not in 4 separate replies, rather in one big mail. FWIK,
it isn't possible yet. Of course, this feature should depend on
marks. You mark n messages, and pressing a magic key combination makes
a huge reply out of all those messages. This feature would be great, huh?

-- 
//Ed               GSM: 040 5960810     URL: http://lodge.ton.tut.fi/%7Eed/
When in doubt, parenthesize.  At the very least it will let some
poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
        --Larry Wall in the perl man page 

Re: Replying to multiple mails

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 13 Feb 1998 21:03:07 +0200, Edvard Majakari <ed@a41a.otanner.ton.tut.fi> said:

Edvard> This feature would be great, huh?

I've been wanting this for ages.  You should see the thread trees in
my inbox as a result of two people doing branched conversations...

-- 
"Ninjas aren't dangerous.  They're more afraid of you than you are of them."

Re: Replying to multiple mails

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Edvard Majakari <ed@a41a.otanner.ton.tut.fi> writes:

> Hmm. Let's assume person foo has sent me 4 mails. I want to reply to
> them all, but not in 4 separate replies, rather in one big mail. FWIK,
> it isn't possible yet. Of course, this feature should depend on
> marks. You mark n messages, and pressing a magic key combination makes
> a huge reply out of all those messages. This feature would be great, huh?

Try doing that, and report back to us what happens.  :-)

(The "magic key combination" is `R', by the way.)

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

Re: Replying to multiple mails

[Paul Franklin]

Have you tried # # # F?

Gnus appears to base headers (recipients/subject/references) on the
first message instead of trying to combine them.  Also, I sometimes
get an error on this; I'll try to remember to send Lars a backtrace
next time.

--Paul

>>>>> Edvard Majakari writes:

 > Hmm. Let's assume person foo has sent me 4 mails. I want to reply to
 > them all, but not in 4 separate replies, rather in one big mail. FWIK,
 > it isn't possible yet. Of course, this feature should depend on
 > marks. You mark n messages, and pressing a magic key combination makes
 > a huge reply out of all those messages. This feature would be great, huh?

>>>>> Wes Hardaker writes:

 >>>>>> On 13 Feb 1998 21:03:07 +0200, Edvard Majakari <ed@a41a.otanner.ton.tut.fi> said:

 > Edvard> This feature would be great, huh?

 > I've been wanting this for ages.  You should see the thread trees in
 > my inbox as a result of two people doing branched conversations...

Re: Replying to multiple mails

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 13 Feb 1998 12:10:30 -0800, Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu> said:

Lars> Try doing that, and report back to us what happens.  :-)

Heh...  Cool...

-- 
"Ninjas aren't dangerous.  They're more afraid of you than you are of them."

Re: Replying to multiple mails

[Andy Eskilsson]

Doesn't this feature exist already?? Well at the moment I marked the
two mails with '#' and pressed 'F' and voila!

	/Andy

/ Edvard Majakari <ed@a41a.otanner.ton.tut.fi> wrote:
| Hmm. Let's assume person foo has sent me 4 mails. I want to reply to
| them all, but not in 4 separate replies, rather in one big mail. FWIK,
| it isn't possible yet. Of course, this feature should depend on
| marks. You mark n messages, and pressing a magic key combination makes
| a huge reply out of all those messages. This feature would be great, huh?
| 
| -- 
| //Ed               GSM: 040 5960810     URL: http://lodge.ton.tut.fi/%7Eed/
| When in doubt, parenthesize.  At the very least it will let some
| poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
|         --Larry Wall in the perl man page 

/ Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
| >>>>> On 13 Feb 1998 21:03:07 +0200, Edvard Majakari <ed@a41a.otanner.ton.tut.fi> said:
| 
| Edvard> This feature would be great, huh?
| 
| I've been wanting this for ages.  You should see the thread trees in
| my inbox as a result of two people doing branched conversations...
| 
| -- 
| "Ninjas aren't dangerous.  They're more afraid of you than you are of them."

Re: Replying to multiple mails

[François Pinard]

Edvard Majakari <ed@a41a.otanner.ton.tut.fi> writes:

> Hmm. Let's assume person foo has sent me 4 mails. I want to reply to
> them all, but not in 4 separate replies, rather in one big mail. FWIK,
> it isn't possible yet. Of course, this feature should depend on
> marks. You mark n messages, and pressing a magic key combination makes
> a huge reply out of all those messages. This feature would be great, huh?

You mark all articles you want to reply to, and press `F'.  You still have
to adjust headers, but most of the job is done.

I once asked Lars to collect and prepare an accumulated header so this
feature fully works.  He replied that this would change the semantic
too much (or maybe take too much distance from some standard, I do not
remember exactly).  So, I do the little editing job by hand, each time.

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