Re: getting who its TO rather than FROM in the sent folder summary

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Feb 24 2010, Nigel Beck wrote:

> My understanding is that if gnus-ignored-from-addresses is set to, eg,
> "Nigel Beck", or some regex of underlying email addresses, that the
> summary buffer for my sent items group(s) would show who the mail is
> TO... but, alas, no such luck.

Did you read (info "(gnus)To From Newsgroups")?

> 1) Is it my summary line format?
> My summary line format is
> (setq gnus-summary-line-format
>       (concat "%U%R %~(pad-right 2)t%* %uj %B%~(max-right 20)~(pad-right 20)n  "
>           "%~(max-right 40)~(pad-right 40)s %-80=%&user-date;\n"))
>
> where user function j just marks whether its TO me or CC me, and user
> date pretties up the dates a little.  Is "~n" not the right thing here?

You need `%f' ...

,----[ (info "(gnus)To From Newsgroups") ]
|   3. The `gnus-ignored-from-addresses' variable says when the `%f'
|      summary line spec returns the `To', `Newsreader' or `From' header.
|      If this regexp matches the contents of the `From' header, the
|      value of the `To' or `Newsreader' headers are used instead.
`----

> 2) Is something cached here, where I need to refresh the sent items
> group somehow?

,----[ (info "(gnus)To From Newsgroups") ]
| If you have old overview files, you should regenerate them after
| changing this variable, by entering the server buffer using `^', and
| then `g' on the appropriate mail server (e.g. nnml) to cause
| regeneration.
`----

> 3) Option three....?

Bye, Reiner.
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