emacs email question: how can change the sender's address?

emacs email question: how can change the sender's address?

[Wade Yin]

Hi all,

   I just using fetchmail and emacs to receive my email from gmail
account,  it works well, but when I send or reply to someone, the
sender's address looks like this: " wade@linuxbox", how can change it
to make people can easy reply mail to my gmail account?


Thanks,
Wade

Re: emacs email question: how can change the sender's address?

[Emilio Lopes]

Wade Yin writes:

>    I just using fetchmail and emacs to receive my email from gmail
> account,  it works well, but when I send or reply to someone, the
> sender's address looks like this: " wade@linuxbox", how can change it
> to make people can easy reply mail to my gmail account?

You do:

   M-x apropos-variable RET
   mail address reply RET

A buffer will pop up showing a few relevant variables.  It will be
easy to identify the one(s) you need to change.

Note: I'm assuming Emacs 22 here.  In previous version the command
`apropos-variable' was not so smart as it's now and you have to do two
searches: one for "mail reply" and another for "mail address".

-- 
Emílio C. Lopes                            Ich leb und weiß nit wie lang,
Munich, Germany                            ich stirb und weiß nit wann,
                                           ich fahr und weiß nit wohin,
                 (Martinus von Biberach)   mich wundert, dass ich fröhlich bin!

Re: emacs email question: how can change the sender's address?

[Sven Joachim]

Wade Yin <Wade.Yinn@gmail.com> writes:

>    I just using fetchmail and emacs to receive my email from gmail
> account,  it works well, but when I send or reply to someone, the
> sender's address looks like this: " wade@linuxbox", how can change it
> to make people can easy reply mail to my gmail account?

Customize the variable user-mail-address.

Regards,
        Sven