Re: Gnus Multiple Roles

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Ah, interesting. Maybe it's time to let Gnus talk directly to the server
>> (though the msmtp hack also on that wiki page still works just fine).
>>
>> That would mean relying entirely on posting styles, though, which is a
>> bit of pain because I really like being able to just hit "m" in the
>> *Group* buffer. It's never quite felt right to me that I still have to
>> compose messages "from" a group, with "C-u a". Anyway, not a great big
>> deal, either way.
>
> I have a hack that I use which gives a menu of profiles based on the
> posting styles.
>
>         https://gitlab.com/snippets/6486
>         
> It is sort of elaborate, and one day I, or someone else, need to add this
> to Gnus.  It’s missing.  The issue is that it’s not quite in the spirit of
> posting styles as posting styles should probably be complete.  But I guess
> you could add a (profile-name NAME) to the posting style which would
> automatically make the posting style available via some menu.

I've always meant to look at gnus-pers and/or gnus-alias, as well --
they seem to be solutions for this problem exactly.