From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Stegemann Subject: Re: [OT] Emacs for email? Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:22:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87d42yazpc.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <20091202025608.GH26697@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> <20091203070537.GN26697@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> <87bpigwoit.dlv@debian.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NG6xk-0000FT-Tb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:22:56 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NG6xf-0000Dm-2t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:22:55 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55556 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NG6xf-0000De-0i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:22:51 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33369) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NG6xe-0002Uc-GA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:22:50 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NG6xa-0004AB-OL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:22:46 +0100 Received: from london.zeitform.net ([146.140.213.100]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:22:46 +0100 Received: from ulf-news by london.zeitform.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:22:46 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Rémi Vanicat wrote: > Russell Adams writes: > >> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:56:08PM -0600, Russell Adams wrote: >>> - Mutt automatically changes my email address depending on the >>> recipient or folder according to a series of "roles" >> >> Not to reply to myself, but one item I've found lacking in other >> mailreaders and one of my primary reasons for using mutt is the >> concept of "roles". > > I'm not sure what a role is, but with gnus, you can change you email > address depending on the folder (group in gnus speak) or the topic > (topic are a hierarchical organization of group). For this you use > posting-style. There's also `gnus-alias'[1] which allows you to automagically select and easily switch identities. An `identity' covers nearly every aspect of a message like From-, Reply-To- and other headers, text to be pre-filled into the body and of course signatures. Having used quite a few mail-/news clients (well, ages ago, I must admit) I never came across a more powerful and flexible mechanism for using roles. Ulf [1] http://www.northbound-train.com/emacs.html#MyPackages