From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default for the envelope From in smtpmail.el
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:08:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n9a9y0ooah.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19713425-C419-4A09-8D66-24717D761FE8@mit.edu> (chad's message of "Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:42:24 -0700")
chad wrote:
> I suspect that Glenn is talking about the case where Emacs is
> pretending to be an MTA.
Not as far as I know. I'm talking about plain old talking to an SMTP
server. smtpmail-via-smtp (abbreviated) does this:
(smtpmail-send-command "MAIL FROM:" envelope-from ...)
Currently envelope-from defaults to user-mail-address, which may bear no
relation to the From: header, which I argue is what the majority will
want to use. This is particularly likely to cause problems if you have
multiple email accounts, since there is only one value of
user-mail-address, which cannot be right for all of them. But I find it
hard to think of any case where you want to sent to MAIL FROM != From:.
They might exist, but should not be the default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-12 2:08 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
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 [this message]
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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