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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

  > nospam2159@daimi.au.dk (Peter von der Ahé) writes:
  > 
  > > Would it be possible to setup the posting styles when
  > > message-fetch-reply-field can return something interesting?
  > 
  > No, because the posting style stuff has to be run in the Message
  > buffer so that it can set buffer-local variables to influence Message
  > to generate the headers (and stuff) that it wants to.

Wasn't there a function which fetched headers from the original
message (the one being replied to)?  Or is there just this idiom?

(save-excursion
  (set-buffer gnus-article-buffer)
  (gnus-fetch-field "foo"))

kai
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