Re: Gnus Multiple Roles

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

bvraghav@iitk.ac.in (B.V. Raghav) writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have been successfully using alpine for a long time now. While
> switching to gnus, I feel that the functionality of alpine that I find
> missing are:
>
> 1. Multiple Roles. The capability to send from any smtp server I
> prefer, not necessarily automated.
>
> I found this excellent library --- smtpmail-multi [
> https://github.com/vapniks/smtpmail-multi ]. However, the problem is,
> that I was not able to automate the reply's with original message
> having a specific header.
>
> The setting was:
> (setq smtpmail-multi-associations
>       '((("To" . "help-gnu-emacs.*") bvraghav\.com)
> 	))
>
> Further I could not find a ready way to choose a specific smtp server
> setting.
>
> Is there a way with the library, or a simple(r) recipe, that I can
> adapt to my needs, in order to fulfil the requirements.

Have you looked at this:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultipleSMTPAccounts

You can use posting styles to set a X-SMTP-Server header in your
outgoing message, and then there's a code snippet there for using the
right server depending on the value of the header.

Hope that's what you were after...