From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to send a mail using smtp? - solved! (but need help with "Mail From:") Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:58:45 -0700 Message-ID: <32tqunF3r62daU2@individual.net> References: <32lcr2F2g1p01U1@individual.net> <32lid1F3nq6ivU1@individual.net> <41C74C31.8040305@att.net> <0hXxd.16785$uM5.7110@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <2h_xd.17273$uM5.13591@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <32rnhkF3qqskdU1@individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1103738377 32121 80.91.229.6 (22 Dec 2004 17:59:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:59:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 22 18:59:27 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ChAli-0005dX-00 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:59:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ChAwH-0003a9-8l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:10:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Jl/j+umq3h0ChU6MCgqnYQ791sbzzUEXb0zsiDqjnArbD2Y1U= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127477 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22930 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22930 Bob Babcock wrote: > Kevin Rodgers wrote in > news:32rnhkF3qqskdU1@individual.net: > > >>Yes, there's a better way, since Emacs has anticipated your problems >>and provided variables to solve them: >> >>(setq user-full-name "My Name" >> user-mail-address "username@domain.net" >> mail-default-reply-to user-mail-address >> mail-from-style 'angles) > > > That's what happens when you migrate .emacs from release to release over a > period of years; you end up with stuff that is no longer necessary. On the > other hand, the above elisp (in emacs 20.3 rmail) doesn't insert the From: > line until the mail is sent. I like to see it during message composition. C-h v mail-default-headers -- Kevin Rodgers