Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

[Nicolas KOWALSKI <niko@petole.demisel.net>]

Tiago Saboga <tiagosaboga@gmail.com> writes:

> I am moving from mutt to gnus, and I am missing a description of how to
> make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use
> fetchmail to get messages from my ISP, and a strange combination of
> procmail and maildrop to filter them into mboxes, where each mailing
> list has its own inbox. Gnus takes messages there and stores them in its
> nnml backend. Now I would like gnus to know that whenever I reply to any
> debian list, it is to send my reply only to the list, except if
> explicitly told otherwise (it should also do the right thing if it finds
> mail-followup-to and reply-to headers, and I don't even know what is the
> right thing in that case).

Yes, this is documented in the group parameters manual, about the
'to-address' parameter:

http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_28.html#SEC28


For example, I have in my ~/.gnus:

(setq 

 ;; 
 ;; Define some parameters, on the group name basis.
 ;;
 gnus-parameters
 '(

   ("^nnimap:list.debian-french" 
    (to-address . "debian-user-french@lists.debian.org")
    )
   
   ("^nnimap:list.debian" 
    (to-address . "debian-user@lists.debian.org")
    )

   ("^nnimap:list.gnus"
    (to-address . "info-gnus-english@gnu.org")
    )
  )
 )


When replying to your post, I used 'F' (followup), and Gnus used the
debian-user@lists.debian.org address instead of your own mail address
in the To: field.

-- 
Nicolas