Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>Hi,

>I've tried enhancing my capture template for Gnus mail, by using the
>=%:author= variable:

AFAIK %:author is not a defined property Gnus links (Cf. Manual,
9.1.3.2 Template expansion).  You can use %:fromname to insert the
name of the message author.  The only problem is, that this property
might be empty as well if the From: address does not include a real
name.

HTH,
  -- David
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