Re: gnus-posting-styles trouble

[Leonidas Tsampros]

Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> My gnus-posting-styles are:
>
> (setq gnus-posting-styles
>        '((".*" (address "ltsampros@upnet.gr"))
>        ("mail.freemail" (address "ltsampros@freemail.gr"))
>          ("corporate" (address "ltsampros@corporate.com"))
>          ("example" (address "me@example.com"))))
>
>
> My groups are in topics like the following:
>
> [personal -- 0]
>          0: nnml:mail.INBOX
>          0: nnml:mail.freemail
> [corporate -- 0 ]
>          0: nnimap+IPaddress:INBOX/folder1
>          0: nnimap+IPaddress:INBOX/folder2
>
> where IPaddress is substituted with the IP of my corporate mail server.
>
> How it currently behaves:
>
> a) Going above any mailbox under the corporate topic, pressing 'm' to
> send new mail correctly sets the From adress as specified in the
> gnus-posting-styles. (I guess that a match takes place with the topic
> name)
>
> b) Going above every mailbox in my Group buffer, the mail is corrently
> set to ltsampros@upnet.gr as specified in the ".*" rule of my configuration.
>
> c) Going above the nnml:mail.freemail box and pressing m, the mail is
> still set to the match of the first rule, like this second rule never
> did a match.
>
> My problem is the behaviour with c). I would expect that the second
> rule would match the group name and set the address to
> ltsampros@freemail.gr.
>
> Any ideas guys on what is going wrong with this configuration?
>
> Thanks
> Leonidas

Hi again,

Guess I misread the manual. I actually had to use C-u m in order to get
the gnus-posting-styles from the group at point applied. 

Thanks.