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From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: gnus-use-generic-path problems
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Date: 2 Aug 89 22:12:11 GMT
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On 2 Aug 89 18:24:26 GMT, (and earlier)
shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) said:

Christopher> [problems with Path: line]

Christopher> Any ideas?

Deven> (setq gnus-use-generic-from t
Deven>       gnus-use-generic-path "bu-pub")

Deven> maybe?  [works for me]

Christopher> I currently have:
Christopher>  (setq gnus-use-generic-from "bu-pub.bu.edu")
Christopher>    ;; use the server not the w/s
Christopher>  (setq gnus-use-generic-path "bu-cs!bu-pub")
Christopher>    ;; aim path at us for dumb sites

Christopher> This doesn't seem to work.  Why?  Damfino.

Deven> As I recall, (I built my setup while studying the GNUS documentation)
Deven> gnus-use-generic-from is t or nil.  (Or, maybe it does try to use it
Deven> if it is neither.)  Anyway, try setting gnus-use-generic-from to t,
Deven> gnus-use-generic-path to "bu-pub" (bu-cs will prepend the "bu-cs!",
Deven> assuming that's your NNTP server) and set gnus-your-domain to
Deven> "bu-pub.bu.edu", which it will use to construct your From: line.  [I
Deven> believe that's how gnus-use-generic-from works -- by suppressing the
Deven> hostname and only using the domain, unless you give a string or nil.]
Deven> You might want to also set gnus-user-login-name, gnus-user-full-name
Deven> and gnus-your-organization.

The From: line is still working fine.  The Path: line (no matter what
string I give to gnus-use-generic-path) doesn't.  (The Path: line isn't
really a big issue for me; sites that have that set as the reply address
deserve bouncemail. :-)

I've got the Organization: set up (I think) and gnus seems to find my
userid and realname fairly easily.

Oh well.

Deven> Deven
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