gnus: Summary Mail Commands
3.5.1 Summary Mail Commands
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Commands for composing a mail message:
‘S r’
‘r’
Mail a reply to the author of the current article
(‘gnus-summary-reply’).
‘S R’
‘R’
Mail a reply to the author of the current article and include the
original message (‘gnus-summary-reply-with-original’). This
command uses the process/prefix convention.
‘S w’
Mail a wide reply to the author of the current article
(‘gnus-summary-wide-reply’). A “wide reply” is a reply that goes
out to all people listed in the ‘To’, ‘From’ (or ‘Reply-to’) and
‘Cc’ headers. If ‘Mail-Followup-To’ is present, that’s used
instead.
‘S W’
Mail a wide reply to the current article and include the original
message (‘gnus-summary-wide-reply-with-original’). This command
uses the process/prefix convention, but only uses the headers from
the first article to determine the recipients.
‘S L’
When replying to a message from a mailing list, send a reply to
that message to the mailing list, and include the original message
(‘gnus-summary-reply-to-list-with-original’).
‘S v’
Mail a very wide reply to the author of the current article
(‘gnus-summary-wide-reply’). A “very wide reply” is a reply that
goes out to all people listed in the ‘To’, ‘From’ (or ‘Reply-to’)
and ‘Cc’ headers in all the process/prefixed articles. This
command uses the process/prefix convention.
‘S V’
Mail a very wide reply to the author of the current article and
include the original message
(‘gnus-summary-very-wide-reply-with-original’). This command uses
the process/prefix convention.
‘S B r’
Mail a reply to the author of the current article but ignore the
‘Reply-To’ field (‘gnus-summary-reply-broken-reply-to’). If you
need this because a mailing list incorrectly sets a ‘Reply-To’
header pointing to the list, you probably want to set the
‘broken-reply-to’ group parameter instead, so things will work
correctly. 
Group Parameters.
‘S B R’
Mail a reply to the author of the current article and include the
original message but ignore the ‘Reply-To’ field
(‘gnus-summary-reply-broken-reply-to-with-original’).
‘S o m’
‘C-c C-f’
Forward the current article to some other person
(‘gnus-summary-mail-forward’). If no prefix is given, the message
is forwarded according to the value of (‘message-forward-as-mime’)
and (‘message-forward-show-mml’); if the prefix is 1, decode the
message and forward directly inline; if the prefix is 2, forward
message as an rfc822 MIME section; if the prefix is 3, decode
message and forward as an rfc822 MIME section; if the prefix is 4,
forward message directly inline; otherwise, the message is
forwarded as no prefix given but use the flipped value of
(‘message-forward-as-mime’). By default, the message is decoded
and forwarded as an rfc822 MIME section.
‘S m’
‘m’
Prepare a mail (‘gnus-summary-mail-other-window’). By default, use
the posting style of the current group. If given a prefix, disable
that. If the prefix is 1, prompt for a group name to find the
posting style.
‘S i’
Prepare a news (‘gnus-summary-news-other-window’). By default,
post to the current group. If given a prefix, disable that. If
the prefix is 1, prompt for a group to post to.
This function actually prepares a news even when using mail groups.
This is useful for “posting” messages to mail groups without
actually sending them over the network: they’re just saved directly
to the group in question. The corresponding back end must have a
request-post method for this to work though.
‘S D b’
If you have sent a mail, but the mail was bounced back to you for
some reason (wrong address, transient failure), you can use this
command to resend that bounced mail
(‘gnus-summary-resend-bounced-mail’). You will be popped into a
mail buffer where you can edit the headers before sending the mail
off again. If you give a prefix to this command, and the bounced
mail is a reply to some other mail, Gnus will try to fetch that
mail and display it for easy perusal of its headers. This might
very well fail, though.
‘S D r’
Not to be confused with the previous command,
‘gnus-summary-resend-message’ will prompt you for an address to
send the current message off to, and then send it to that place.
The headers of the message won’t be altered—but lots of headers
that say ‘Resent-To’, ‘Resent-From’ and so on will be added. This
means that you actually send a mail to someone that has a ‘To’
header that (probably) points to yourself. This will confuse
people. So, natcherly you’ll only do that if you’re really eVIl.
This command is mainly used if you have several accounts and want
to ship a mail to a different account of yours. (If you’re both
‘root’ and ‘postmaster’ and get a mail for ‘postmaster’ to the
‘root’ account, you may want to resend it to ‘postmaster’. Ordnung
muss sein!
This command understands the process/prefix convention (
Process/Prefix).
‘S D e’
Like the previous command, but will allow you to edit the message
as if it were a new message before resending.
‘S O m’
Digest the current series (Decoding Articles) and forward
the result using mail (‘gnus-uu-digest-mail-forward’). This
command uses the process/prefix convention (
Process/Prefix).
‘S M-c’
Send a complaint about excessive crossposting to the author of the
current article (‘gnus-summary-mail-crosspost-complaint’).
This command is provided as a way to fight back against the current
crossposting pandemic that’s sweeping Usenet. It will compose a
reply using the ‘gnus-crosspost-complaint’ variable as a preamble.
This command understands the process/prefix convention (
Process/Prefix) and will prompt you before sending each mail.
Also Header Commands (message)Header Commands, for more
information.
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