From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10829: 24.0.93; Error sending bug report -- default SMTP username Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:06:31 +0100 Message-ID: References: <84sjia49wz.fsf@STATION03.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <871upp9azh.fsf@gnus.org> <84ty2bk9mz.fsf@aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331334436 12971 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2012 23:07:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:07:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10829@debbugs.gnu.org To: nyc4bos@aol.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 10 00:07:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S68ty-0004Dn-SC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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That's not my experience. >> Emacs just guesses here, and I think (user-login-name) is a perfectly >> valid guess. So I'm closing this bug report. > > When creating a bug report (`report-emacs-bug') using (run)emacs -Q, > Emacs has already "just guessed" when it fills in the "From: " > address: > > From: > @.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me > > So when the user explicitly fills in their valid email address, why > should Emacs override the user with a default of its own? > > Why shouldn't Emacs just accept what the user has explicitly typed > by default (and allow in prompt for a different user name)? > > IOW, exactly the opposite to what you have changed it to (put in its > own default causing the user to have change it yet again). I'm not quite sure what you mean. Surely you're asked for a user name and password if the SMTP server requires it? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/