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: user-mail-address adds from, not replace Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:04:14 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <412A5BCE.9000000@yahoo.com> References: <4126C918.7000708@peakNOSPAMfive.com> <412A1E31.1000700@yahoo.com> <412A3B9D.2000208@peakNOSPAMfive.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093295159 3919 80.91.224.253 (23 Aug 2004 21:05:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 23 23:05:55 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 1BzM0o-0005cH-00 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:05:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzM5H-0002eL-T5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:10:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de vW3ajoeR6fLkt9sNLhktPQjm++N80NLP57OVCrw6DB3m2TabU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124890 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20239 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20239 [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 > > > > 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