Re: Gnus Multiple Roles

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Whichever one of them I used was an alternative to posting styles.
> Nonetheless they might work together.

It does seem like someone ought to write a nice canonical solution to
the problem...

...?

:)