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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: user-mail-address adds from, not replace
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:04:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <412A5BCE.9000000@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 412A3B9D.2000208@peakNOSPAMfive.com

[Please don't top-post.]

MattR wrote:
 > emacs 20:
 >
 >  send-mail-function's value is
 >  sendmail-send-it
 >
 >  Documentation:
 >  Function to call to send the current buffer as mail.
 >  The headers should be delimited by a line which is
 >  not a valid RFC822 header or continuation line.
 >
 >  Defined in `sendmail'.
 >
 > emacs 21:
 >
 >  smtpmail-send-it
 >
 >  <other stuff deleted>
 >
 > BUT...
 >
 > I pulled postfix and inserted sendmail as the MTA and now things work. I
 > had to set send-mail-function to smtpmail-send-it to get the mail to go
 > through my isp's mail machine.

What is postfix?  It's not mentioned anywhere above.  See the comments
at the top of smtpmail.el on how to configure smtpmail-send-it
correctly.  It doesn't need any external program to work, it talks
directly to server the via SMTP.

 > I've never used postfix before.  Is there a reason why it adds the extra
 > stuff, or a way to fix it?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-23 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-21  4:05 user-mail-address adds from, not replace MattR
2004-08-23 16:41 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-08-23 18:50   ` MattR
2004-08-23 21:04     ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-08-24  0:12       ` Matt

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