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3.6: Remailing Posts

Mailcrypt knows how to rewrite USENET posts for anonymous or pseudonymous remailing. Just compose your post or followup normally, and use C-c / r to rewrite it for a remailer chain. You don't even need to start your newsreader to make a post; you can just compose a message in mail mode and replace the `To' line with a `Newsgroups' line before doing C-c / r.

Mailcrypt will generate an error if the last remailer in the chain does not have both the post and hash (hashmarks) properties. The hashmarks are used to preserve `References' and similar headers, so your anonymous or pseudonymous followups will thread properly. The variable mc-remailer-preserved-headers controls which headers are preserved when rewriting a message, but you should not need to change it since the default value is reasonable.

Before rewriting, you can use C-c / p to insert your pseudonym, and C-c / b to insert your response block, just like when composing mail. In this case, the response block will include the `From' line and the `Newsgroups' line (which is the news analogue to the `To' line).

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