From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "From: address is not valid." when sending mail Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:13:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1183156236.269204.191330@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <1183187618.478475.194120@k29g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183206705 22850 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2007 12:31:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:31:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Simon Josefsson , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: levander Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 30 14:31:37 2007 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 4.50) id 1I4c6z-0003Lo-8U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:31:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4c6y-0007Cy-Oc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:31:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4Zy8-0005VV-AG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:14:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4Zy7-0005Us-1g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:14:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4Zy6-0005Uo-P9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I4Zy6-00069Y-3T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5UAED7W009144; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:14:14 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71BAC12A9C; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:14:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: /U7=m^"/-Dn61mAl{g9e3>\G5Tp,oEX|V)g2I1hBk\ML; )7A?6cmB-y7y?'NA^J<=oz7syB =(McAwIHgLX!.B?R3X}98d@?>CrT094KLWh]WU4gDpnL/")MS(XoQTv`Oq225uL>+; CpPXo$N5e>N> $tPd-gbB^F{gQS#1ase]XO~D4p4M"3+F-7~u]dy3I?Pb8RO*H-EFeWDUf?Rf, d]pv\Jvh2Cht!A=im yKAS2Z%Ao^;}W/qzMvMm Mail-Followup-To: levander , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: <1183187618.478475.194120@k29g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> (levander's message of "Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:13:38 -0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-INFN-TO-Metrics: poseidon 1233; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:31:13 -0400 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:45376 Archived-At: On Sat, Jun 30 2007, levander wrote: > I'm not sure why we don't have better documentation for emacs. Because nobody contributed better documentation. > From rummaging around the info docs for a couple of hours I found > out that in gnus, the email address you set for an account overrides > some user- email-address variable. Simply trying setting that > user-email-address on a whim, it turns out that that is where > smtpmail gets the value from to set in that "MAIL FROM" command > above. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think user-email-address even > shows up in the smtpmail documentation. I couldn't find it. I guess you meant `user-mail-address'. When using Gnus, you should refer to it's documentation as well. The Message manual (Gnus' mail mode) includes: ,----[ (info "(message)Mail Variables") ] | `message-sendmail-envelope-from' | When `message-sendmail-f-is-evil' is `nil', this specifies the | address to use in the SMTP envelope. If it is `nil', use | `user-mail-address'. If it is the symbol `header', use the `From' | header of the message. `---- You can find this via index search `i From RET , , , ,' (`i' = `Info-index', `,' = `Info-index-next'). But I agree that it would be useful if the smtpmail documentation would also include something about the envelope From because it seem to be a frequent problem. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/