A lot of mailing lists do not set the reply-to to the mailing list. It
is considered evil, but I like it. But lets not get into a discussion
about that.
The only way to get the email to the mailing list is a wide follow up,
but then the sender gets an email from me and from the mailing list.
That is why I made follow up only going to the mailing list. (With
reply I still can reply to the author.)
I defined a 'tuple':
(setq dcbl-gnus-mailing-lists '(
("INBOX.Info.bbdb" .
"bbdb-i...@lists.sourceforge.net")
.
.
.
("bedrijf/ontwikkeling/scala" .
"scala-u...@googlegroups.com")
))
I made the following advice:
(defadvice gnus-summary-followup-with-original (after formalities ()
activate)
(let ((to-address (dcbl-gnus-get-mailing-list-address)))
(when to-address
(when (message-fetch-field "To")
(message-goto-to)
(message-beginning-of-line)
(kill-line))
(when (message-fetch-field "Cc")
(message-goto-cc)
(message-beginning-of-line)
(message-beginning-of-line)
(kill-line)
(kill-line))
(dcbl-fill-to-address)
(message-goto-body))))
When gnus-newsgroup-name is from a mailing list, I empty the To field,
I delete the Cc field, fill the To field and go to the body.
The function to get the address:
(defun dcbl-gnus-get-mailing-list-address ()
"Get gnus-newsgroup-name mailing list address (if it has one);"
(string-match "[^:]*$" gnus-newsgroup-name)
(dcbl-get-tuple-value dcbl-gnus-mailing-lists (match-string 0
gnus-newsgroup-name)))
The general function to get a value from a 'tuple':
(defun dcbl-get-tuple-value (tuple index)
"Get value from tuple indexed by index (if it exist);"
(assoc-default index tuple))
The function to fill the To field (I use it also to fill when creating
an article, that is why I go to the subject field here.):
(defun dcbl-fill-to-address ()
"Determine what to-address to use on the current message;"
(interactive)
(let ((to-address nil))
(when (and (string= major-mode "message-mode")
gnus-newsgroup-name
(not (message-fetch-field "To"))
(setq to-address (dcbl-gnus-get-mailing-list-address)))
(message-goto-to)
(insert to-address)
(message-goto-subject))))
I check that I am in message-mode, that gnu-newsgroup-name is filled,
that the To field is not filled and that it is a mailing list.
If that is the case I fill the To field and go to the subject field.
The advice for sending a message:
(defadvice gnus-summary-mail-other-window (after formalities () activate)
(dcbl-fill-to-address))
I hope it is useful to someone. And if I could do things better: let
me know.
--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
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