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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: levander <levander404@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "From: address is not valid." when sending mail
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:50:46 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18054.6502.217407.78678@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183187618.478475.194120@k29g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>

levander writes:
 > I'm not sure why we don't have better documentation for emacs.  From
 > rummaging around the info docs for a couple of hours I found out that
 > in gnus, the email address you set for an account overrides some user-
 > email-address variable.  Simply trying setting that user-email-address
 > on a whim, it turns out that that is where smtpmail gets the value
 > from to set in that "MAIL FROM" command above.
 > 
 > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think user-email-address even
 > shows up in the smtpmail documentation.  I couldn't find it.

Don't you mean user-mail-address?  This is mentioned repeatedly in the Emacs
manual.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-30  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-29 22:30 "From: address is not valid." when sending mail levander
2007-06-30  7:13 ` levander
2007-06-30  8:50   ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-06-30  8:54   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-06-30 10:13   ` Reiner Steib

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