Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: how to add Reply-To: to outgoing articles? Message-ID: Date: 9 May 89 17:20:43 GMT Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: bob@cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 26 I want GNUS (2.11) to insert a header line like "Reply-To: bob@cis.ohio-state.edu" in each article I post. I think I want to use gnus-optional-headers and some appropriate hook functions, but I'm not much of a Lisp hacqeur. Any suggestions would be welcome. Long-winded explanation follows - hit "n" or something if you aren't interested. Our mail system creates From: lines with our domain name like "user@cis.ohio-state.edu". Several hosts advertise MX for that domain, and we have one unified mail system, so that works fine. Our news system creates From: lines with full hostnames like "user@host.cis.ohio-state.edu". This will cause privately-mailed responses to news articles to be delivered to that user on that machine. Once delivered to a particular machine, the mail message will enter the unified department-wide mail system, so that works fine too. Occasionally, a particular machine (usually one running SunOS 4.0) from which I may recently have posted news will go AWOL and stop answering the phone for SMTP deliveries. Alas, that means that mail delivery attempts to that machine to fail and queue, and I may not even notice for several days because I'm exchanging plenty of mail traffic via "bob@cis.ohio-state.edu", and I don't even miss the traffic that isn't succeeding in finding that particular host.