Re: summary buffer format for archives

[Richard G Riley]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:15:14 +0100, Richard wrote:
>
>> Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>>> How can I change the summary buffer format for only my archive groups?
>>> e.g I want to see the "to" address rather than the "from address" for
>>> all outgoing emails I have archived.
>
>> To answer my own question:
>
>> (setq
>>  gnus-parameters
>>  '(("^\\(nnimap\\|nnfolder\\|nnml\\)"
>>     (gnus-summary-line-format "%-23,23~(form (gnus-extra-header 'To))@  
>> %S\n"))))
>
>> I'm not sure I understand the manual when it says %f is the "from" or
>> the "to" field.
>
> Another possibility is to set gnus-ignored-from-addresses to something
> that matches your own addresses:
>
> ,----[ C-h v gnus-ignored-from-addresses RET ]
> | `gnus-ignored-from-addresses' is a variable declared in Lisp.
> |   -- loaded from "gnus-sum"
> | 
> | Value: "\\(asjo\\|adam\\)@\\(koldfront.dk\\|asjo.org\\)"
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | *From headers that may be suppressed in favor of To headers.
> | This can be a regexp or a list of regexps.
> `----
>
> (This functionality perhaps also accounts for the description of %f that
> was confusing to you?)
>
>
>   Best regards,

It did indeed! Thanks.

And combining the two It's much better as the default summary line is
good to go then:

,----
| (setq
|   gnus-parameters
|   '(("^\\(nnimap\\|nnfolder\\|nnml\\)"
|     (gnus-ignored-from-addresses ".*riley.*"))))
`----

This I still see my own name in threads in nntp groups but the "to" in
the archived folders - perfect!

Many thanks to you and Tassilo.