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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Getting rid of the Fcc: field, and other compose problems.
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:38:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739g79v4g.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110908T115419-459@post.gmane.org> (G. Philip's message of "Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:55:34 +0000 (UTC)")

G Philip <gphilip@india.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am a new Gnus user. I have set up Gnus to work with Gmail using
> offlineimap. Whenever I try to compose a message (or reply to a
> message), I get the following problems:
>
> 1. The "Fcc:" field is populated with a non-existant directory, and I am
> prompted whether I want to create this maildir. Since I don't want to
> save a local copy of the sent message (because Gmail SMTP and IMAP will
> get it for me anyway), I have to always say "no" before proceeding. This
> is a nuisance when it happens every time.

I don't get anything in an FCC header field.  Maybe check out the values
of the gnus-archive-.* variables?  I don't believe the default is to
have anything defined for file copy so you must be setting something
yourself?

> 2. The "From:" field is populated by a junk email id, constructed from
> my username on the local machine and the local machine's hostname. I
> have to edit this field also every time so that it is my proper email
> address. 

I use:

    (setq gnus-posting-styles '((".*" (address "e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk"))))

much abridged... and also have

    (setq user-mail-address "e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk")

I'm not sure if both are needed; probably the first is the most
important for using gnus but much of this is a mystery to me!

HTH,
eric

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.18



       reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <loom.20110908T115419-459@post.gmane.org>
2011-09-08 10:38 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-09-08  9:29 G Philip
2011-09-08 16:54 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-09-08 18:56   ` gphilip
2011-09-08 19:07     ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-09-08 21:04       ` Richard Riley
2011-09-09  7:51         ` G Philip
2011-09-10 19:55           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-05-05 21:44   ` Nat Makarevitch

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