Forwarding mail with NO headers

[Bill Day]

I am using gnus to read mail from IMAP.

C-c C-f C-c copies the email I am responding to and ALL headers into
my new email.

What command (or gnus.el configuration) can I use to get gnus to
default to forwarding only the message body (and any attachments) but
NOT the message headers into my forwarded email?

Thanks for any assistance.

[Richard Riley]

Bill Day <william...@gmail.com> writes:

Related: it would be nice to forward a mail without the original to/cc
fields.

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Nov 02 2009, Richard Riley wrote:

> Bill Day <william...@gmail.com> writes:
>> C-c C-f C-c copies the email I am responding to and ALL headers into
>> my new email.

Not sure what command you have bound to `C-c C-f C-c'. In message
mode, C-c C-f C-c runs the command message-goto-cc, in the summary
buffer C-c C-f runs the command gnus-summary-mail-forward.

>> What command (or gnus.el configuration) can I use to get gnus to
>> default to forwarding only the message body (and any attachments) but
>> NOT the message headers into my forwarded email?
>

> Related: it would be nice to forward a mail without the original to/cc
> fields.

What's wrong with `message-forward-ignored-headers'?

,----[ (info "(message)Forwarding") ]
| `message-forward-ignored-headers'
| All headers that match this regexp will be deleted when forwarding
| a message.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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[Richard Riley]

Reiner Steib <reinerst...@imap.cc> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 02 2009, Richard Riley wrote:
>
>> Bill Day <william...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> C-c C-f C-c copies the email I am responding to and ALL headers into
>>> my new email.
>
> Not sure what command you have bound to `C-c C-f C-c'. In message
> mode, C-c C-f C-c runs the command message-goto-cc, in the summary
> buffer C-c C-f runs the command gnus-summary-mail-forward.
>
>>> What command (or gnus.el configuration) can I use to get gnus to
>>> default to forwarding only the message body (and any attachments) but
>>> NOT the message headers into my forwarded email?
>>
>> Related: it would be nice to forward a mail without the original to/cc
>> fields.
>
> What's wrong with `message-forward-ignored-headers'?

I give up. What is?

Thanks!

[Richard Riley]

Reiner Steib <reinerst...@imap.cc> writes:

That works well Reiner. Thanks for the pointer. I had a quick look at
the gnus-summary-message-forward function but am not able (capable?!) to
see how to modify the subject line which Gnus creates for the forward
mail : it currently includes the original "from" as part of the new Subject
line. e.g

Subject: [Fred Smith] FW: Faceless

How can I stop that? I guess a setting of some kind exists.

regards

r.

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Nov 02 2009, Richard Riley wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinerst...@imap.cc> writes:
>> What's wrong with `message-forward-ignored-headers'?
>>
>> ,----[ (info "(message)Forwarding") ]

[...]

>
> That works well Reiner. Thanks for the pointer. I had a quick look at
> the gnus-summary-message-forward function but am not able (capable?!) to
> see how to modify the subject line which Gnus creates for the forward
> mail : it currently includes the original "from" as part of the new Subject
> line. e.g
>
> Subject: [Fred Smith] FW: Faceless
>
> How can I stop that? I guess a setting of some kind exists.

Continue reading (info "(message)Forwarding"):

,----[ (info "(message)Forwarding") ]
| `message-make-forward-subject-function'
| A list of functions that are called to generate a subject header
| for forwarded messages. The subject generated by the previous
| function is passed into each successive function.
|
| The provided functions are:
|
| `message-forward-subject-author-subject'
| Source of article (author or newsgroup), in brackets followed
| by the subject.
|
| `message-forward-subject-fwd'
| Subject of article with `Fwd:' prepended to it.