Re: Getting rid of the Fcc: field, and other compose problems.

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:59:36 +0530, G wrote:

> 1. The "Fcc:" field is populated with a non-existant directory, and I am
> prompted whether I want to create this maildir.

What have you done to get an Fcc: field? I don't think you get one by
default? (You probably get a Gcc: field for archiving sent messages,
though).

> 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. 

Does it help to set the variables user-full-name and user-mail-address?

> ;; (setq gnus-posting-styles
>        '(((header "to" "myfirstaddress@gmail.com")
>           (address "myfirstaddress@gmail.com"))

I think you've got a level of parens too many there? (Comparing to the
example in the Posting Styles node in the manual¹)


  Best regards,

    Adam

¹ http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_154.html#SEC154

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