From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46550 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus+qmail: set envelope sender? Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:54:38 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032101799 6479 127.0.0.1 (15 Sep 2002 14:56:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 14:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17qapC-0001gN-00 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:56:38 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17qao5-0004iR-00; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:55:29 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:56:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA20429 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 09:55:53 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 19302 invoked by alias); 15 Sep 2002 14:55:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19297 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2002 14:55:11 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 15 Sep 2002 14:55:11 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g8FEsi822556 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:54:44 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id QAA04107; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:54:39 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id CA9DD3AFEA; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:54:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Clemens Fischer's message of "Sat, 14 Sep 2002 19:59:31 +0200") Original-Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46550 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46550 Clemens Fischer writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Grojohann) writes: > >>> (address >>> (cadr (setq message-qmail-inject-args `("-f" ,user-mail-address)))) >>> ) >> >> I think that's not a good idea. I think you can set local variables >> from posting styles. Why not use that feature? > > but that's what i'm doing! No, you're executing Lisp code by side-effect from a place where this is not intended to happen. > also, the info page states that attributes in list-form get eval'ed. Yes. I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying it's bad style. It's like avoiding "goto" in imperative programming languages. >> You might have to add message-qmail-inject-args to >> gnus-newsgroup-variables, though. > > well, to be honest, i don't know which of these features i can trust > more, and i have this strong feeling towards keeping related stuff in > one place. Well, you can put the two Lisp statements together in your .gnus... kai -- ~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn (Frank Nobis)