Re: Gnus Multiple Roles

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Wouldn't X-Message-SMTP-Method be easier?

To be honest, I don't really understand the difference. I use msmtp, so
the header stuff is unfamiliar to me. What's the difference in how they
work?