From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org>
Cc: 36937@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#36937: 26.1; Sending mails doesn't set From: correctly
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:10:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftmeydjc.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y307xuo6.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (Sven Joachim's message of "Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:46:01 +0200")
On 2019-08-05 21:46 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2019-08-05 19:00 +0100, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote:
>
>> This problem started happening in builds from master around 4 days ago:
>>
>> - start emacs -Q
>> - M-x mail (or any other form of sending email)
>> - Set a From: value different from user@localhostname
>> - Send mail using local sendmail
>>
>> The mail is sent with a from header seen by postfix (i don't know about
>> other MTAs) as user@localhost, instead of the From: i set in the
>> headers. By user@localhost i mean the unix username running emacs and
>> the hostname as returned by hostname(1). It seems emacs is just
>> ignoring the value of From:, or setting it in a way postfix doesn't
>> understand.
>>
>> I know almost for sure it's an emacs problem because emacs 26 or an
>> earlier version of emacs-snapshot is working without problems.
>
> Confirmed here, although it did not prevent me personally from sending
> mail, since I had already set up postfix to rewrite such
> user@localhostname addresses back.
>
> Reverting commit 3a59cc840693 (" * lisp/gnus/message.el: Reduce
> redundancy with send-mail-function") fixed the problem. It looks like
> this commit changed some important options and looks NEWS-worthy.
Most notably, it changed the default of message-sendmail-f-is-evil,
which is now t. Setting message-sendmail-f-is-evil back to nil restores
the previous behavior.
> Stefan?
Cheers,
Sven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-06 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-05 18:00 bug#36937: 26.1; Sending mails doesn't set From: correctly Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2019-08-05 19:46 ` Sven Joachim
2019-08-06 7:10 ` Sven Joachim [this message]
2019-08-06 7:32 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <FMvW6nm7r2CHxlnkt2DXHDW7iNPmJrCcUSTmI7SI_qrg6fzR-vcBJlPvtECxekzaGrAGlhlmmSmvf6pA3bcykg==@protonmail.internalid>
2019-08-06 8:34 ` Sven Joachim
[not found] ` <875znaid0j.fsf@gnus.jao.io>
2019-08-06 15:04 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2019-08-07 0:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-07 13:47 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2019-08-06 7:19 ` Stefan Monnier
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