From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: 38169@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38169: Idea: custom From names ("From Personalities")
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:18:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9rq49ib.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8xjfaju.8.fsf@jidanni.org>
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> Just the other day I was reading (info "(message) Reply") and I suddenly
> had a new idea: "From personalities". [Feature request].
>
> Let's say we are replying to mom@nurdfamily.org.
> Well, we want our From: headers to say
> From: James Fartdom <james@example.com>,
> or even
> From: Your loving son James <james@example.com>.
>
> But let's instead say we are replying to secretary@plaztziph.com.
> Well in that case we want our From: header to look like
> From: Chairman Fartdom <james@example.com>,
> or even
> From: Chairman J. Fartdom <chair@plaztziph.com>.
> or even
> From: Military Purchasing Director <mpdir@mil.mil>.
>
> Well all this could be accomplished with an alist of patterns of who we
> are replying to, vs. what header we should use, and what is the default
> if no matches.
>
> Note: what if it is a wide reply, and we are replying to both your mom,
> and the CEO? So maybe ask the user what From to use.
This much is already doable, with a clause in `gnus-posting-styles':
((header "From" "secretary@plaztziph.com")
(address "Chairman Fartdom <chair@plaztziph.com"))
The posting styles can be a nested tree of conditions, so you can write
your own rule for what happens when you're replying to both your mom and
the CEO.
> Also note, this all will work great when *replying* to a message,
> but how about when composing a *new* message?
This Gnus doesn't provide out of the box, unless you compose from the
Group buffer with point on a group, and give a prefix arg to "m" or "a".
Then the group under point is used for rules.
But I know that there's more than one external package that does this,
one is called "gnus-pers", I think.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-11 1:48 bug#38169: Idea: custom From names ("From Personalities") 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-11 17:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2019-11-14 5:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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