Re: cc: nobody a bug?

[Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hrvoje> Hrvoje Niksic <URL:mailto:hniksic@iskon.hr>

0> In article <9t9zowdb3cz.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr>, Hrvoje wrote:

Hrvoje> Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

>> I suggest that Gnus should treat any address containing '@' in the
>> usual way, otherwise it should check its list of magic values.

Hrvoje> Since none of the magic values contains `@', that's exactly
Hrvoje> what Gnus does.  What am I missing?

Has this changed since 0.95?

I see in `message-insert-to':

  (let ((co (message-fetch-reply-field "mail-copies-to")))
    (when (and (null force)
               co
               (or (equal (downcase co) "never")
                   (equal (downcase co) "nobody")))
      (error "The user has requested not to have copies sent via mail")))

and in `message-reply':

  (let (mct never-mct)
    (save-restriction
      (message-narrow-to-head)
      (setq mct (message-fetch-field "mail-copies-to"))

      ;; Handle special values of Mail-Copies-To.
      (when mct
        (cond ((or (equal (downcase mct) "never")
                   (equal (downcase mct) "nobody"))
               (setq never-mct t)
               (setq mct nil))
              ((or (equal (downcase mct) "always")
                   (equal (downcase mct) "poster"))
               (setq mct (or reply-to from)))))

      ;; ...
      (widen))
    ;; ...
    )


So Gnus appears to use only the four magic values "never", "nobody",
"always", and "poster".


Ah, I think I now understand your question.  What you are missing is
the bit where I say that if the value does not contain '@' and is not
found among the magic values, we show it to the user and ask whether
to mail a copy (adding a note in the message as we do so).  The reason
you missed this bit is, of course, because I forgot to write it -
thanks for pointing out the omission.