Commands for composing a mail message:
Mail a reply to the author of the current article
(gnus-summary-reply).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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. See Group Parameters.
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).
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 forwarded message is inlined into the mail.
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.
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.
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.
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 (see Process/Prefix).
Like the previous command, but will allow you to edit the message as if it were a new message before resending.
Digest the current series (see Decoding Articles) and forward the
result using mail (gnus-uu-digest-mail-forward). This command
uses the process/prefix convention (see Process/Prefix).
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
(see Process/Prefix) and will prompt you before sending each mail.
Also See Header Commands in The Message Manual, for more information.