From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default for the envelope From in smtpmail.el
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:16:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fwmkps09.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y60c4v21.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:16:22 +0200
>
> Currently, the default envelope from address (aka. SMTP "MAIL FROM") in
> smtpmail is `user-mail-address'. The user can change this by changing
> some rather confusing variables called `mail-specify-envelope-from' and
> `mail-envelope-from'.
>
> I wonder whether a more sensible default here would be to use the From:
> address in the buffer being sent. Some MTAs filter on the MAIL FROM,
> and only allow access based on a filter, and people adjust their From:
> headers to reflect that.
>
> For instance, when they are at work with their laptops, they use "From:
> foo@workplace.com", and at home "From: foo@gmail.com".
>
> I have no idea whether changing this default will break more stuff than
> it would help, though. Thoughts?
I would suggest not to make any new-featurish changes at this point
that are not absolutely necessary. We are just a couple of weeks from
the pretest -- do we really want to make Emacs as unstable as humanly
possible till then?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-05 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 15:16 Default for the envelope From in smtpmail.el Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-05 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-07-05 19:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-05 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-06 1:30 ` Tim Cross
2012-08-11 1:15 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-11 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-11 17:52 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-11 18:06 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-12 0:21 ` Rasmus
2012-08-12 0:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-12 0:42 ` chad
2012-08-12 2:08 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-12 2:15 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-12 3:06 ` chad
2012-08-12 15:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-12 17:38 ` chad
2012-08-13 3:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-04 13:13 ` Nix
2012-09-05 1:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-05 9:14 ` Nix
2012-09-04 15:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-04 16:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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