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From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
Subject: Re: Switching my From: address...
Date: 24 Feb 1998 14:14:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ocru39on7cr.fsf@ml.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: James Troup's message of "24 Feb 1998 16:43:21 +0000"

James Troup writes:
> Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:

>> Short answer: `user-mail-address'.

> This doesn't work for me.

> user-mail-address's value is "jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk"
> mail-host-address's value is "comp.brad.ac.uk"

> Yet I end up with a From: line of jjtroup@scm.brad.ac.uk.
 
Actually, this is the From line that I am getting from you:

> From: James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>

It looks as though one of the machines that is routing your mail is
adding it for you.  I don't see how Gnus could figure out that your
return machine is scm.brad.ac.uk, since your actual machine is
dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk .

-- 
Colin


  reply	other threads:[~1998-02-24 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-02-19 21:59 Norman Walsh
1998-02-19 22:20 ` Colin Rafferty
1998-02-24 16:43   ` James Troup
1998-02-24 19:14     ` Colin Rafferty [this message]
1998-02-24 19:58     ` Manoj Srivastava
1998-02-24 22:09     ` Mark Moll
1998-02-20  5:07 ` Justin Sheehy

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