Hello Patrick and others,
First, apologies for the delayed response.
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:08:48AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>
> Try the following:
> set reverse_name
> add as the very first send-hook: send-hook . ""
> comment out or remove subject reply-hooks
>
> Make sure that all of the required "reverse_name"s are defined in
> "alternates"
This is what I did:
1. I removed all reply and send-hooks, `set reverse_name' (not
reverse_name=yes), and then I set an empty default send-hook as you
show above. I also made sure all my addresses are matched with
alternates.
The above allows me to respond to my own responses in a thread
correctly, i.e. my email address from my response is picked as from.
However, I cannot respond to mailing list emails delivered to any of
these alternate email addresses with the correct email address (I use
<reply> or <list-reply>). Responding to messages addressed directly
to any of the alternates work well.
2. To solve this, I added send-hooks for mailing lists delivered to my
alternates.
send-hook "%C work-lists" my_hdr From: wor...@domain.com
send-hook "%C foss-lists" my_hdr From: l...@gmail.com
Note work-lists and foss-lists are groups with mailing list
addresses, and I still have the default empty send-hook.
After this change, <reply> and <list-reply> works correctly again.
But now, I have a problem with composing new messages. The new
message has the from address of the last email I started to compose
(it does not matter if I aborted the message or sent it). I guess
this means the last my_hdr command "persists" through the rest of the
session.
3. To solve this problem, I now change the default send-hook to
something like this:
send-hook . my_hdr From: prim...@gmail.com
And of course this last change then breaks $reverse_name, and
<reply>; <list-reply> still works because of (2).
4. Now to solve this issue, I re-introduce the old reply-hooks.
reply-hook '~h "Delivered-To: +list@gmail\\.com"' my_hdr From:
l...@gmail.com
reply-hook '~h "Delivered-To: +wor...@domain.com"' my_hdr From:
wor...@domain.com
This does not work right away because of (3). So I remove (3), set
the default send-hook back to empty, as in (1), and introduce a
default reply-hook as below:
reply-hook . my_hdr From: prim...@gmail.com
This fixes reply, but $reverse_name is still broken.
As you can see, I'm going around in loops. Is my reasoning correct in
all the above steps? Are there better ways to implement any of the
intermediate steps? Hopefully I have detailed my steps accurately so
that people can give suggestions.
Thanks a lot :).
Cheers,
--
Suvayu
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