On 2015-07-19 00:59, David Bremner wrote:
[email protected] writes:
BTW, all I really want to do is modify the From: field based on the
recipients (for every email, with no default From). I'll welcome
suggestions for existing ways to do that. I Googled a little, but
didn't
find a clear good solution. Furthermore, I expect over time the
rules by
which I pick the From: field will get more complex than my knowledge
of
Elisp.
I'm afraid it's a bit "some-assembly-required", but let me mention
one
possible solution.
At least if you just want to have a regular expression match on the
recipient, then the example configuration in message-templ [1] may be
enough to get you started. You'd have to either call
message-templ-config-exec in a hook, or bind it to a key and call it
manually to set up the headers before sending.
[1]: http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git?p=message-templ.git;a=tree
Thanks for this. I'll see if I can follow the Elisp code.
After sending my email, it occurred to me that message handling is not
notmuch's job - that's passed on to message-mode. I figured message-mode
must have some kind of hook before sending the email, and sure enough,
it does have message-send-hook. The example at
www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/message.html shows how one
can add headers before sending. There's also message-alternative-emails,
although that likely works only if you're replying to an email.
A little frustrating: They have a number of functions to modify/read
fields like Subject, or To - but none for From! So I'll still have to do
some surgery. I'll likely use the send-message-hook to:
1. Read the "To" & "cc" values.
2. Pass them to an external Python script.
3. Get the appropriate "From" field from the Python script.
4. Insert it into the From: field.
How does one do steps 2 & 3 in Elisp? I just need a pointer. (Just
Googled and saw this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5014246/how-to-capture-standard-output-of-a-shell-command-in-elisp)
Thanks,
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