From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7206 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: .mailrc and Gnus Date: 15 Jul 1996 19:37:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147548 6284 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA15232 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:58:12 -0700 Original-Received: from hler.ifi.uio.no (hler.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.23]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 20:30:34 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by hler.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 20:30:42 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of 15 Jul 1996 12:28:58 +0200 Original-Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.33/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7206 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7206 Per Abrahamsen writes: > That is quite frustrating, since it means that I can't send mail to a > friend from Gnus. The poor soul is stuck with an X.400 address which > is three lines long. Emacs simply refuses to send mail to that > address directly, but I managed to send mail by defining an alias with > `define-mail-alias' and send mail to that. Then this should be fixed. Why does Emacs refuse to send a mail with a long To header? Message just does a `call-process-region' that feeds the outgoing mail to sendmail. Does sendmail choke on long To headers? -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."