Re: How to not display my own name?

[Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote:

> Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
> 
>   > 2) Why is it all so complicated? What's the big deal with replacing
>   > "To:" with "From:" in a summary line? The headers are in the messages,
>   > why do I need to write all that stuff about extra headers and ignored
>   > addresses instead of just specifying a different
>   > gnus-summary-line-format? There *must* be a reason, but I did not get
>   > it at all, and would appreciate somebody to kindly enlighten me. Many
>   > thanks.

Oops, of course I meant `replacing "From:" with "To:"'...

> You have to add the *-extra-headers part because Gnus uses the
> overview information *only* for building summaries, and the two
> variables make it so that the From header is inserted into the
> overview data (which is not there by default).

I kind of see your point... still it all looks ugly IM-very H-O for
mail (i.e. locally stored) groups.

> Setting gnus-ignored-from-addresses is there for extra flexibility.
> Maybe you have more than one email address, or you want to display the
> To header for mails from frumple, too.  Or something.  Maybe a
> reasonable default for this variable is missing.

But in a group like "sent" (where it all makes most sense) I want
*just* the To: header, I never care about the From:... whatever it is.
It is me anyway, no?

Still... why doesn't my setup work? ;^|

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.