Re: gnus - setting Mail-Followup-To header

[Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>]

Jim Crossley wrote:
> Gary writes:
>
>> As you might see, I read and post to this list, among others, via the
>> gmane mail2news/news2mail gateway. That is, when I post, I am doing so
>> in a manner that gnus thinks I am posting to a newsgroup, not a mailing
>> list, and so doesn't set Mail-Followup-To. Is it possible, either by
>> config or code, to make it do so?
>
> Can you use gnus-posting-styles maybe?
>
>   (setq gnus-posting-styles
>       '(("^gmane"
>          ("Mail-Followup-To" "someone@somewhere.org"))))

I don't know :) Can I? I see what you mean:
,----[ http://nntp.gnus.org/gnus/manual/gnus_153.html ]
| The attribute name can also be a string or a symbol. In that case,
| this will be used as a header name, and the value will be inserted in
| the headers of the article
`----

One problem I see is the following:
,----[ http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt ]
| 2.5   Usenet News Client Action
| 
| If a message has a "Mail-Followup-To" header, and no "Followup-To"
| header, this is an indication that further discussion should take place
| only in e-mail
`----

So it would inconvenience anyone else using a mail2news gateway that
wants to followup (they'd be prompted to reply by email to the mailing
list...).

I'm adding a suitable Followup-To header as well, and will see if that
works, at least with gnus :P

-- 
Gary
GNU Emacs 23.2.1
emacsclient 23.2
1.7.4(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-07 11:02 Cygwin