Hello There! Your probably need to put the following in your ~/.emacs file (setq user-full-name "Your Name") (setq user-mail-address "your@email.add") (setq mail-default-reply-to "your@anotherorsame.email.add") For example I have (setq user-full-name "G Anna") (setq user-mail-address "drguruolai@eth.net") (setq mail-default-reply-to "anna7sept@linuxmail.org") in my ~/.emacs.el file. HTH anna