From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: user-mail-address adds from, not replace Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:12:04 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <412a8688$0$99775$75868355@news.frii.net> References: <4126C918.7000708@peakNOSPAMfive.com> <412A1E31.1000700@yahoo.com> <412A3B9D.2000208@peakNOSPAMfive.com> <412A5BCE.9000000@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093306253 23214 80.91.224.253 (24 Aug 2004 00:10:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:10:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 24 02:10:44 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 1BzOtf-000115-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:10:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzOy8-0002sy-6f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:15:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.frii.net!newsfeed.frii.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.9.80.48 Original-X-Trace: 1093305992 news.frii.net 99775 24.9.80.48 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124897 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:20246 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20246 Kevin Rodgers wrote: > [Please don't top-post.] why not? Sometimes it makes sense. > What is postfix? It's not mentioned anywhere above. See the comments postfix is similar to sendmail. > 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. Now I think I understand. I didn't use smtpmail-send-it on my old machine, it found sendmail, and sendmail worked. On the new system it used postfix, didn't work, I pulled postfix, put in sendmail, and at the same time put in smptpmail-send-it. So I don't need sendmail but I might put it back in anyway. Thanks, Matt