Re: multiple id's and additional headers

[Louis <usenet26@ossh.com>]

Arnaud Vandyck <arnaud.vandyck@ulg.ac.be> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to setup several id's (changing the from and other headers
> fields) like I did in Mew. Can someone point me the info node or
> something?

I use the following to change headers depending on where I'm posting:

;; add to ~/.gnus

;; customize message id for each group / mailing list

   (defun message-make-message-id()
      (concat "<nntp." (message-unique-id) "@" ossh\.com ">"))

;; customize group headings - edited for privacy

(setq gnus-posting-styles
	'(("nnml:.*"
         (From (save-excursion
                 (set-buffer gnus-article-buffer)
                 (message-fetch-field "to"))))
	("^nnml\\+private\\:mainemail@ossh\\.com"
	 (address "mainemail@ossh.com")
         (signature-file "~/.signature"))

	 ("^nnml\\+private\\:Gentoo Users"
	 (address "email-00@ossh.com")
         (signature-file "~/.signature-gentoo"))

        ("^nn.+:"
         (signature-file "~/.signature"))

	("^nnml\\+private\\:lug@lug\\.org"
	 (address "lugemail@ossh.com")
	 (to "lug@lug.org")
	 (cc nil)
         (signature-file "~/.sig/signature-lug"))

	("^earthlink"
	 (address "usenet26@ossh.com")
	 (x-face nil)
	 (face nil)
	 (organization " change to whaterver")
	 (name "Louis")
   (eval (setq ossh.com "anotherdomain.foo"))
	 (signature "change sig"))
	
	("^alt"
	 (address "usenet26@ossh.com")
	 (organization "LCC")
	 (name "Louis")
   (eval (setq ossh.com "yetanotherdomain.foo"))
	 (signature "LCC"))

;; snipped for privacy

))

(setq message-default-headers
      (concat

"X-Whatever: whatever you want \n"
"X-Anotherheader: whatever you want \n"
"X-etc: you get the point \n"

"Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAJFBMVEWQcmwjGBYIAQK3l5PYwb2/
 paGVgn765uSwh4TsxsJvVVHVrKugwieXAAADO0lEQVR4nE2UwYvbVhCHx4Sojk4rNy3BN+mQw97K
 W7mq91h5jdElID+6iS5S3ArjaxeE6UUgEI/kKhAPXaxN2MLrURLUff9cZ+SkdG6a7838Zp5mHvzu
 +qNl/zP6hsSyrJnj2E/pjqMxlqbQOvYMEkV+Z66UMlzOQ+alYDq2BUuWoN9WqrXm00gPIRNgzpwZ
 3O3eUQAAKPW0DTQPBeVy4C6dYMBzHYUl7Lb+EMawh4ljwx36ne9rqUPmRhvZLUylUMSBdyg9+5wh
 EG4vq79zFFMoAkvl2PaPWcPEvuhlEMYILPXowM+LR/u6PgYeQHGWg0dFtPPWgTfGzHmdVYu2PT3r
 ZZebMC1KZTnwHrVfPrz56wds46YJczV19ZC3I7B/7Qr3oMzfztrLT1MW6fsLuI4GdwjFRcIQgvHw
 w4zAtxu/1zo6y4pKwCIYKwnYL2SltfallFUYY7lqJ8pHBNdr2WjdS1lncgC8KOsUpwS+y6TsffJn
 MsiFMC0kBL5BsCF/fay6fC8WZnu1R2CvsyOml/U/JxksqKbSVARe409GUtUT6+M9VRRxDwi8HEEV
 yOW8X1qfPB71AxMI/rxE6HP19pg4V4xzrbmYQPLLBQRa+k0+e3XPI2wqTCBZI5Bji1p75sf7W4zQ
 XQIHmjBZ+TqggyIUt3Ri+ADxmMn3qXvdiXwajWAJKYKHMzVSDVHopUXUB/+BakMyqB96orj1Az3w
 Jewwk19nx142A2NM4KxcQLrOHnwcBq2bThScCYYSHEFcZ3+EGN4xMjf0GJbFGVa1zpponcmmwzSi
 cD2Bw8DYYQRjjw12IaYFS/ccazjAYZ2t6rF5agNnoUwLJsoJaQTZF6Bp3lLYsTJtKZUkUA20TQKU
 Ac+8Eh4pFWXKms5DcZzcE0xFbM7gcM42dF1NlxeCpupkTktQI6gIVF25xxS0cgbtGhzeNlE9ghyE
 iCGNlYFDh+Cn1XYEAytxbmEfnwygNUhuAh9FHga8pnQq0hSB2RJ4PvibalOt8FEo8VVAo23DNXhy
 tysf/wFufjz6UR4fC3h/VWxXfMVCURpgXOrFAATzHV9x7i3E1+P0eiBILOPGDwa2KFPTVKN/BP8C
 vna5gvPAc7oAAAAASUVORK5CYII= \n"

(with-temp-buffer
          (insert "X-Face: ")
          (insert-file-contents "~/.xface13")
          (buffer-string))))

;; end of ~/.gnus stuff

> Also, i'd like to add x-face and face headers. I think there was an
> article about that some times (days) ago but I did not press '*' and it
> seems to be away :'(

I use the above to do what you requested within this post. Just drop
it into your ~/.gnus and edit to your taste and away you go.

> Thanks for an url to create my own 'color' Face.

If you're lazy (have an inclination you might be, but then again so am
I) then use an online x-face creator such as this:

   * www.dairiki.org/xface/

make sure you make the image 48x48 grayscale *before* you put it
through the above URL for best results.

The face header:

   * quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/

is simple to do if you take the time to make the image 48x48 and play
around with it being 5-16 colors depending on how much color the image
has. I used a combination of photoshop / image-ready and photodraw,
but I'm sure you can get away with using Gimp, ImageMagick or even
pngcrush:

    * http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/
    * http://www.gimp.org/
    * http://www.imagemagick.org/

Once you have a 48x48 5-16 color PNG do the following:

    'M-x find-file-literally RET'
    'find *.png file you created'
    'C-x h'
    'M-x base64-encode-region'

Replace my 'Face: " \n"' what you receive in the above buffer and
remember to leave the trailing '\n' (newline). 

I had a problem with the face header being so long it would spill into
the body of a post / email because I have not figured out how to do a
line continuation, so to get around that you can post a test message
into news://alt.test and pressing 'C-c C-c' and Gnus will ask you if
you would like to fix the line continuation, which you say 'Yes' to
each request until it sends. Once sent find your post within alt.test
and copy *that* working face header into your ~/.gnus file and you
should have a Face and X-Face header like mine.

I'm sure there is an easier way to do the above, but the above works
for me so it should work for you too. The reason I put my huge
'Face:' into ~/.gnus is because I dont know how to put an '\n'
between Face: and X-Face: if both placed within a file. If you can
figure it out by all means let me know :p

-- 
LCC