bug in gnus 4.1 (emacs 19.25): `gnus-author-copy' pipe and `gnus-auto-mail-to-author' incompatible

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From: Matthew Swift
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 17:14

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 If you set the following two variables thusly:
 
 (setq gnus-author-copy "|/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +usenet")
 (setq gnus-auto-mail-to-author t)
 
 you get a problem when posting news in reply to a usenet article.
 
 Specifically, the header
   To: <sender@foo.com>
 
 causes the article to first be sent out as mail.  That field appears because
 `auto-mail-to-author' is true.  But the mailer chokes on the FCC: field.  It
 does not recognize the special filename beginning with the "|" character, and
 says that no such file or directory exists. 
 
 Now, without a To: header (either the article is not a reply, or 
 `mail-to-author' is nil, or you manually kill that header before sending), 
 the gnus-author-copy function works fine, and the special pipe-file is
 recognized and handled properly.
 
 Alternately, `mail-to-author' works fine if the "FCC: |..." header is
 eliminated.
 
 So each option works separately, but they break when used together.
 
 Matt
 swift@bu.edu

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Subject: bug in gnus 4.1 (emacs 19.25): `gnus-author-copy' pipe and `gnus-auto-mail-to-author' incompatible
Date: 27 Sep 1994 13:14:02 -0400
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