Re: jed -> gnus newbie

[Glyn Millington]

notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:

> I've got gnus running, have my nntp server variable set, but still
> can't post.  When trying to post to a test ng, I get an error msg:
>
> Denied posting -- the From looks strange: "notbob@xxxx"
>
> .....xxxx being my Slack box'es host name.  OK, I'll change it to
> whatever.com, but where do I set the "from" header variable?  Also,
> what about the other header settings like "name" (nick),
> "organization", etc.  

Well you can use 

(setq user-full-name "NOT BOB")
(setq user-mail-address "notbob@myplace.org")


BUT if you use posting styles you can do that and more and when you are
ready do it on a per-group basis.  Here are a few (munged) blocks from my
posting-styles section. (See section 5.5 of the Gnus manual)


(setq gnus-posting-styles
        '((".*"                                 ; 1st block - defaults
          (signature-file "~/.sigs/usual")
          (From   "Glyn Millington <glyn@urglewyrgle.org>")
           (Reply-to   "glyn@urglewyrgle.org")
          (body "\n\nGlyn")
;          ;;;;;           ;; line above puts my name above sig.
            (organization "Central Church, Torquay, U.K."))

;;; for usenet cover up a little - just a little.
(message-news-p     ; ie if this is usenet
           (From   "Glyn Millington <urglewurgle@urglewurgle.org>")
           (Reply-to   "urglewurgle@urglewurgle.org")
           (organization "Utterly lacking")
          (body "\n\nGlyn"))


         ("FRIENDS"
          ("X-Discordian-Date" (shell-command-to-string "ddate")))


         ("^alt.os.linux.slackware"
         ("X-Discordian-Date" (shell-command-to-string "ddate"))
                (signature-file "~/.sigs/slack")
         ("X-Now-Playing" (gm-now-playing)))

         ("SLACKLIST"
          (signature-file "~/.sigs/slack"))

))


^^  notice those two beauties





> I've been run ragged looking for info in my Learning Gnu Emacs
> (O'Reilly, 2nd ed) and emacs and gnus online manuals.  But, info on
> these settings and others like my pop3 and smtp server settings are
> still unfound by me.  


http://my.gnus.org/tutorial/Mail.html#Mail

section 7.2


personally I use good old fetchmail to download the mail  and dump it in
/var/spool/mail/glyn

then gnus takes over, sorting the mail, dumping the dross  :-)


for outbound mail I have postfix running and Gnus finds the sendmail
command and does the business without further instruction from me - but
section 7.2 tells about the other way...


Good luck



Glyn