Re: setting mail-self-blind to t has no effect

[Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com>]

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> 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.  Do
this...

(setq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent)

And see if that works.  It works for me, but if I have gnus-user-agent
in there, it doesn't.

> '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).  Gnus 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/gnus_5.html#SEC125

Alternatively, you could just use the sendmail-user-agent and have this
stuff sent back to you.  I chose this as the path of least resistance.
At least for now.

Hope this helps.

Jeff