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deskpot@myrealbox.com (Vasily Korytov) writes:

> I was annoyed, message-user-mail-address function uses the
> user-mail-address variable only. It may be desireable in some cases to
> have it derived from the From header (esp, in the
> message-send-mail-with-sendmail function).

Two questions:

* Why not do it in `message-make-address' instead, which appears to be
  the function used directly in the sendmail related code?

* Is your diff against the most recent version of message.el?  Your
  patch doesn't apply cleanly.