Re: posting-styles and bbdb "from"

[Richard Riley]

David <de_bb@arcor.de> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>> David <de_bb@arcor.de> writes:
>>> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> I was wondering if anyone has a solution for setting the
>>>> gnus-posting-style address based on a "email-from" field or similar on a
>>>> contacts bbdb record?
>>>
>>> Put the following function in your .gnus:
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I got it going. Great. I did have to define my own symbol though e.g
>>
>> (setq email-type (make-symbol "email-type"))
>
> I don't understand why this would be necessary. What kind of error do
> you get when you omit this? 
>
> You have to create the field in the BBDB, of course.

Yup, something else must have been up - I removed it and it all works fine.

>
>> I understand that the first clause ",(rx.." produces a match string
>> (regexp) which is later evaluated against the group name. The second
>> searches for the email-type field and matches it is type "dev".
>>
>> But how could I combine them so as not to have to repeat the other
>> forms?
>
> You could try something like (untested)
>
> (setq gnus-posting-styles
>       '(
>         ((or (string-match (rx (or "DevelopmentEmail" "emacs" ))
>                             gnus-newsgroup-name)
>            (DE-bbdb-match-field-recipient 'email-type "GWDG"))
>         (name "Richard Riley")
>           (address "rileyrgdev@googlemail.com")
>           (from "Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>"))))
>
> -David

Great - works wonderfully.

many thanks,

r.


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