Re: "drafts" and "reply to all"

Re: "drafts" and "reply to all"

[Mark Borges]

>> On 05 Jun 1996 01:27:21 +0200,
>> Per Abrahamsen(PA) wrote:
>>>>>> "SLB" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
SLB> In order to preserve all the Cc:'s, it is necessary to `f', then
SLB> edit the headers to remove my address from them.

PA> Gnus obeys the `rmail-dont-reply-to-names' variable.  
PA> Just set it to your address.

Doesn't seem to work for me. The doc-string in my copy says:

----------------------------------------
rmail-dont-reply-to-names's value is "info-\\|mdb\\>"
  -- a variable declared in Lisp.

Documentation:
*A regexp specifying names to prune of reply to messages.
A value of nil means exclude your own name only.
----------------------------------------

which doesn't work; it is apparently initialized from

----------------------------------------
rmail-default-dont-reply-to-names's value is "info-"
  -- a variable declared in Lisp.

Documentation:
A regular expression specifying part of the value of the default value of
the variable `rmail-dont-reply-to-names', for when the user does not set
`rmail-dont-reply-to-names' explicitly.  (The other part of the default
value is the user's name.)

It is useful to set this variable in the site customization file.
----------------------------------------

Setting it to nil didn't work. Setting it to "mdb@cdc.noaa.gov" didn't
work. What will?

-- 
  -mb-

Re: "drafts" and "reply to all"

[Per Abrahamsen]

Try setting rmail-dont-reply-to-names to "Mark Borges". 

The regexp should mark the beginning of the name, the documentation
of which is carefully hidden in `rmail-dont-reply-to'.

rmail-dont-reply-to: a compiled Lisp function in `mail-utils'.
(rmail-dont-reply-to USERIDS)

Returns string of mail addresses USERIDS sans any recipients
that start with matches for `rmail-dont-reply-to-names'.
Usenet paths ending in an element that matches are removed also.

Re: "drafts" and "reply to all"

[Mark Borges]

>> On 06 Jun 1996 15:56:31 +0200,
>> Per Abrahamsen(PA) wrote:
PA> Try setting rmail-dont-reply-to-names to "Mark Borges". 

Nope. That leaves me with

  To: <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>

But you got me on the right track, and I did the obvious thing

  (setq rmail-dont-reply-to-names "Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>")

PA> The regexp should mark the beginning of the name,

I guess I don't fully understand why your suggestion didn't work
then.

It would be nice if a value of nil would work as the doc-string
suggests.

-- 
  -mb-

Re: "drafts" and "reply to all"

[Mark Borges]

>> On 06 Jun 1996 10:57:48 -0600,
>> Mark Borges(mb) wrote:

mb> It would be nice if a value of nil would work as the doc-string
mb> suggests.

Or if it would work like `vm-reply-ignored-addresses':

------------------------------
vm-reply-ignored-addresses's value is ("\\(mdb\\|\\(mark.\\|m\\)?borges\\)@cdc.noaa.gov")
  -- a variable declared in Lisp.

Documentation:
*Non-nil value should be a list of regular expressions that match
addresses that VM should automatically remove from the recipient
headers of replies.  These addresses are removed from the headers
before you are placed in the message composition buffer.  So if
you see an address in the header you don't want you should remove
it yourself.

Case is ignored when matching the addresses.
------------------------------

-- 
  -mb-

Re: "drafts" and "reply to all"

[Steven L Baur]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov> writes:

>>> On 06 Jun 1996 15:56:31 +0200,
>>> Per Abrahamsen(PA) wrote:
PA> Try setting rmail-dont-reply-to-names to "Mark Borges". 

Mark> Nope. That leaves me with

Mark>   To: <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>

Mark> But you got me on the right track, and I did the obvious thing

Mark>   (setq rmail-dont-reply-to-names "Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>")

This does not work cleanly either.  Eg.  it would not work with the
address ``mdb@cdc.noaa.gov''.

PA> The regexp should mark the beginning of the name,

Mark> I guess I don't fully understand why your suggestion didn't work
Mark> then.

Mark> It would be nice if a value of nil would work as the doc-string
Mark> suggests.

Yup.
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Re: "drafts" and "reply to all"

[Per Abrahamsen]

>>>>> "MB" == Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov> writes:

>>>>> "PA" == Per Abrahamsen wrote:

PA> Try setting rmail-dont-reply-to-names to "Mark Borges". 

MB> Nope. That leaves me with

MB>   To: <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>

That sounds like a bug in XEmacs 19.14.

Here is what I use:

(setq rmail-dont-reply-to-names
      (mapconcat 'regexp-quote '("Per Abrahamsen"
				 "abraham@dina.kvl.dk"
				 "abraham@iesd.auc.dk"
				 "amanda@iesd.auc.dk") "\\|"))

which works fine.