[Evolution-hackers] NNTP cross-posting

[Meilof <meilof wanadoo nl>]

Hello,

A question about the NNTP support bounty: the bounty description 
mentions cross-posting to NNTP folders and e-mail addresses. I guess 
this means you will need to be able to see both the "To" and "Post-To" 
headers, so I added menu items to toggle the display of these headers. 
However, this gets pretty messy with respect to the visible_mask code in 
headers_set_visibility which assumes that for posting a message you only 
(and always) want to see the PostTo header, and for composing a normal 
e-mail message you only (and always) want to see the To header? How 
should this be implemented? I guess the easiest way would be to remove 
the visible_mask altogether...

And another thing: how about posting to multiple newsgroups at the same 
time? The current folder selection widget only allows you to select one 
folder at a time. Is posting to multiple newsgroups a priority (and if 
so, how should it look?), or can it wait?



Meilof
-- meilof wanadoo nl


PS. My latest NNTP patch, patch 9 at the moment, can be downloaded from 
http://home.wanadoo.nl/meilof/. It has support for logging in using 
AUTINFO now. I /could/ try to implement those other login methods IMAP 
also has (kerberos, etc.), but I don't have a news server to throw them 
at to test them, so that would become difficult.