From: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default for the envelope From in smtpmail.el
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:42:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19713425-C419-4A09-8D66-24717D761FE8@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87628pj727.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
On 11 Aug 2012, at 17:19, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
> Glenn Morris writes:
>
>> Now you send it. The envelope from address (which is used eg for the
>> MAIL FROM command sent to the stmp server) should default to whatever
>> was in the From: header.
>
> This is a bad idea. Emacs should set the envelope address only on
> specific request from the user. Provide an easily customized option,
> yes. Default, no. The default is to let the MTA figure it out.
I suspect that Glenn is talking about the case where Emacs is
pretending to be an MTA. Then again, I might be wrong. The large
number of possible mail configurations for emacs makes these
conversations tricky.
*Chad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-12 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 15:16 Default for the envelope From in smtpmail.el Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-05 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-05 19:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-05 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-06 1:30 ` Tim Cross
2012-08-11 1:15 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-11 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-11 17:52 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-11 18:06 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-12 0:21 ` Rasmus
2012-08-12 0:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-12 0:42 ` chad [this message]
2012-08-12 2:08 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-12 2:15 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-12 3:06 ` chad
2012-08-12 15:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-12 17:38 ` chad
2012-08-13 3:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-04 13:13 ` Nix
2012-09-05 1:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-05 9:14 ` Nix
2012-09-04 15:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-04 16:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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