Re: Gnus Multiple Roles

[Rasmus]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> 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?

X-Message-SMTP-Method is support "out of the box" and can be used to
configure SMTP pretty effortlessly.  I haven't tried Gnus with external
SMTP programs for eons, so I cannot speak towards msmtp.

Rasmus

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