From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting mail-self-blind to t has no effect Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272998001 6483 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:33:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:33:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 20:33:20 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Mvm-0008O3-M1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:33:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50864 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Mvl-0002MY-Ui for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:33:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.235.205.153 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1269377348 1285 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2010 20:49:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.235.205.153; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.307.11 Safari/532.9, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177552 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73042 Archived-At: Hello On Mar 23, 6:45=A0pm, Jeff Clough wrote: > Francis Moreau writes: > > I would like to add a "Bcc:" field in my emails that I compose from > > emacs (by calling compose-mail). > > Compose mail also relies on whatever is assigned to mail-user-agent. =A0D= o > this... > > (setq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent) > > And see if that works. =A0It works for me, but if I have gnus-user-agent > in there, it doesn't. you're right, I have 'gnus-user-agent' and changing to 'sendmail-user- agent' make it works. > > > 'mail-self-blind' seems to do the job but setting this variable to > > true doesn't work, no Bcc header is added, whereas doing: > > This should do the job, in theory, but it looks like it's up to the > actual user agent to pay attention to it. > > > Could anybody know why the first solution doesn't work. > > My guess is that you're running Gnus (or at least, some other package > that doesn't pay attention to mail-self-blind). =A0Gnus has it's own way > of doing this, which you can find discussed here: > > http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/emacs-20.7/html_chapter/... > > Alternatively, you could just use the sendmail-user-agent and have this > stuff sent back to you. =A0I chose this as the path of least resistance. > At least for now. I use gnus-user-agent, in order to retrieve some gnus bindings when composing mails. I don't know about the Mail package which is selected by sendmail-user-agent but I have to admit that I feel too lazy to learn one more package just to be able to use mail-self-blind. Thanks