message: Canceling News
1.6 Canceling News
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The ‘message-cancel-news’ command cancels the article in the current
buffer.
The value of ‘message-cancel-message’ is inserted in the body of the
cancel message. The default is ‘I am canceling my own article.’.
When Message posts news messages, it inserts ‘Cancel-Lock’ headers by
default. This is a cryptographic header that ensures that only you can
cancel your own messages, which is nice. The downside is that if you
lose your ‘.emacs’ file (which is where Gnus stores the secret cancel
lock password (which is generated automatically the first time you use
this feature)), you won’t be able to cancel your message. If you want
to manage a password yourself, you can put something like the following
in your ‘~/.gnus.el’ file:
(setq canlock-password "geheimnis"
canlock-password-for-verify canlock-password)
Whether to insert the header or not is controlled by the
‘message-insert-canlock’ variable.
Not many news servers respect the ‘Cancel-Lock’ header yet, but this
is expected to change in the future.
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