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Re: message-alternative-emails
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Yuri D'Elia |
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Re: message-alternative-emails |
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Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:41:39 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:37:17 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> In my .gnus file I have the following:
>>
>> (setq message-alternative-emails
>> (concat
>> "\\(email\\)\\|" ...
>> "\\(email\\)\\|" ... ))
>>
>> (setq message-dont-reply-to-names
>> (concat
>> "\\(" (regexp-quote user-mail-address) "\\)\\|"
>> message-alternative-emails))
>>
>> (setq gnus-ignored-from-addresses message-dont-reply-to-names)
>>
>> It sounds like there should be a way to avoid all that repetition. Why
>> aren't these variables derived from each-other automatically by default?
>
> The last variable is derived from `user-mail-address'. The first second
> wouldn't make sense to derive from the first, I think.
Except that user-mail-address can only accept a single address.
Currently:
message-alternative-emails: defaults to nil
message-dont-reply-to-names: defaults to nil (which means to strip
user-mail-address)
gnus-ignored-from-addresses defaults to user-mail-address
Wouldn't it make more sense to derive message-dont-reply-to-names and
gnus-ignored-from-addresses from a combination of user-mail-address and
message-alternative-emails?
It seems to me that the purpose of such variables is to easily recognize
yourself from your different email aliases (except maybe from
message-dont-reply-to-names which may be a superset), and such the
defaults are a bit unsatisfactory.
To be more precise:
message-dont-reply-to-names defaulting to:
(when message-alternative-emails
(concat "\\(" (regexp-quote user-mail-address) "\\)\\|\\("
message-alternative-emails "\\)"))
it makes more sense to avoid replying to one of your many identities.
then default gnus-ignored-from-addresses from
message-dont-reply-to-names? If message-dont-reply-to-names is really
supposed to be a superset, then I would prefer
gnus-ignored-from-addresses to default of the combination of
user-mail-address and message-alternative-emails as above.
I still do believe that message-dont-reply-to-names is mostly used as a
way to filter out yourself though, and using it as a default for
gnus-ignored-from-addresses should be fine.
The opposite should be always true however: message-dont-reply-to-names
is probably always a subset of gnus-ignored-from-addresses, though it's
probably defined too late to be used as a default.
Any comment?
I could supply a patch for this.