Re: What's the best way to auto-sign some emails but not all?

Björn Bidar <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:35:55 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> writes:

> Thanks for all the great ideas.  I have realized that there are probably
> more ways to do this than there are Gnus users :-)
>
> The discussion made me look closer at the code in question, which I
> should have done in the first place. And I believe my problem is that
> there are no hooks in the appropriate places.  Yanking the original
> message happens very late, long after message-setup is finished.
>
> Most of the suggestions depend on message-setup-hook in some way, making
> them work and fail similar to my existing gnus-posting-styles setup. One
> exception is gnus-alias which AFAIU can apply a new identity to an
> existing message buffer.  But that's an interactive choice, which is
> what I'm trying to avoid.

That is not true. gnus-alias has rules which make it possible to
automatically apply an identity. Check C-h v gnus-alias-identity-rules RET. 

Message-signature manual or automatically should also take into account
a yanked article AFAIU.