From: Mark Moll <mmoll@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: wrong "From:" line
Date: 17 Oct 1996 13:21:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uttramxzeum.fsf@gs236.sp.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 16 Oct 1996 21:08:45 +0100
>>> On 16 Oct 1996 21:08:45 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen (LMI) wrote:
LMI> mmoll@gs236.sp.cs.cmu.edu writes:
>> How can I change the default "From:" header line? Now I have the following
>> lines in my .gnus:
>>
>> (setq user-mail-address "mmoll@cs.cmu.edu"
>> mail-host-address "cs.cmu.edu"
>> message-default-headers "Reply-To: mmoll+@cs.cmu.edu\n")
>>
>> But somehow the from line gets changed to:
>>
>> From: mmoll@gs236.sp.cs.cmu.edu
LMI> That's odd. Could you look in the "*sent ...*" buffer after sending
LMI> the message and see what the From header looks like there?
There was no "*sent ...*" buffer, but I found out that it was more a
sendmail problem than a gnus problem. I just had to remove the "-f" option:
> diff -c message.el~ message.el
*** message.el~ Fri Sep 6 19:38:09 1996
--- message.el Thu Oct 17 13:16:39 1996
***************
*** 1382,1388 ****
nil errbuf nil "-oi")
;; Always specify who from,
;; since some systems have broken sendmails.
! (list "-f" (user-login-name))
;; These mean "report errors by mail"
;; and "deliver in background".
(if (null message-interactive) '("-oem" "-odb"))
--- 1382,1388 ----
nil errbuf nil "-oi")
;; Always specify who from,
;; since some systems have broken sendmails.
! ; (list "-f" (user-login-name))
;; These mean "report errors by mail"
;; and "deliver in background".
(if (null message-interactive) '("-oem" "-odb"))
--
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1996-10-16 13:28 mmoll
1996-10-16 20:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-17 17:21 ` Mark Moll [this message]
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