mail-fcc doesn't write From header

mail-fcc doesn't write From header

[Olivier Cappe]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-08-03 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure '--build=i386-linux' '--host=i386-linux'
'--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--with-x=yes'
'--with-x-toolkit=athena' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'build_alias=i386-linux'
'host_alias=i386-linux''
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.iso88591
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: POSIX
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Emails saved with Fcc (mail-fcc) do not have a From field. Here is and example

To: comcap@free.fr
FCC: ~/testfile
Subject: test
--text follows this line--
test

$ cat ~/testfile
>From cappe Thu Sep  9 13:56:58 +0200 2004
To: comcap@free.fr
Subject: test

test


I am running emacs -q to avoid customization related issues. mail-fcc did insert
a From field with Emacs <= 20.
Thanks,

--
olivier
(please CC me as I am not on the list)

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Re: mail-fcc doesn't write From header

[Kevin Rodgers]

Olivier Cappe wrote:
 > Emails saved with Fcc (mail-fcc) do not have a From field. Here is
 > and example
 >
 > To: comcap@free.fr
 > FCC: ~/testfile
 > Subject: test
 > --text follows this line--
 > test
 >
 > $ cat ~/testfile
 >>From cappe Thu Sep  9 13:56:58 +0200 2004
 > To: comcap@free.fr
 > Subject: test
 >
 > test
 >
 >
 > I am running emacs -q to avoid customization related
 > issues. mail-fcc did insert a From field with Emacs <= 20.

mail-do-fcc writes the From: header if it is present in the message
composition buffer.  What does `C-h v send-mail-function' say?

For sendmail-send-it, a From: header is inserted unless
mail-from-style is set to system-default.

For smtpmail-send-it, a From: header is inserted unless
mail-from-style is something other than angles, parens, or nil.

For feedmail-send-it, a From: header may be inserted depending on the
value of feedmail-from-line.

For post-mail-send-it, a From: header is not inserted.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: mail-fcc doesn't write From header

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kevin Rodgers wrote:
 > mail-do-fcc writes the From: header if it is present in the message
 > composition buffer.  What does `C-h v send-mail-function' say?
 >
 > For sendmail-send-it, a From: header is inserted unless
 > mail-from-style is set to system-default.
 >
 > For smtpmail-send-it, a From: header is inserted unless
 > mail-from-style is something other than angles, parens, or nil.

I suspect that difference between sendmail-send-it and
smtpmail-send-it is unintentional, as is this other difference in the
handling of the From: header:

* sendmail-send-it checks for non-ASCII characters in the fullname and
   escapes them using rfc2047-encode-string; smtpmail-send-it does not.

Perhaps that section (starting with the following comment) should be
modularized into its own mail-do-from function that both *-send-it
functions could call (like mail-do-fcc).

	    ;; Put the "From:" field in unless for some odd reason
	    ;; they put one in themselves.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers