From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default for the envelope From in smtpmail.el Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:49:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87627trdon.fsf@gnus.org> References: <0xwr16rzz5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83zk62c56n.fsf@gnu.org> <1usjbt9uzm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346773778 22363 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2012 15:49:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 15:49:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 04 17:49:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T8vNf-0005am-VX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:49:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T8vNd-0006ks-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:49:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T8vNX-0006jr-Nn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T8vNW-0007ON-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:53279) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T8vNW-0007O6-AY; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ip-200-13-149-91.dialup.ice.net ([91.149.13.200] helo=rusty) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T8vNK-0001AD-RU; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:49:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1usjbt9uzm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:52:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1T8vNK-0001AD-RU MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1347378555.43242@h3mw5CPJM82S3B0WZ1OwIw X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152995 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > The proposal is effectively: > > (setq mail-specify-envelope-from t > mail-envelope-from 'header) > > If you look at the start of smtpmail-send-it, this would do what you > suggest. Doesn't it make more sense to just make smtpmail default to using the >From header, and then people who don't want that, for some reason or other, can just set `mail-envelope-from' explicitly to whatever they want? Looking at smtpmail.el, I think two `M-t's are all that are needed for that to happen. And a notice in NEWS. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no * Sent from my Emacs