Re: summary buffer format for archives

[Richard G Riley]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
>> I'm not sure I understand the manual when it says %f is the "from" or
>> the "to" field.
>
> It means that it's normally the from unless it's a message sent by you.
> In that case it's something like
>
>     -> to@foobar.invalid
>
> or
>
>     => news.group.you.posted.in
>
> HTH,
> Tassilo

Hmm, that was not my observation. Possibly something not right as a
result of posting-styles? I should look into it.

Adam's points clarified it for me though:

,----
| 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?)
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