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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.

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).

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.

kai
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