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From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
Subject: Re: header error
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:23:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jg1ndib.fsf@koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hdf5e2gf.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:34:40 GMT, Haines wrote:

>> An easy way to control the email-address is by setting
>> user-mail-address:
>> 
>> (setq user-mail-address "youremail@example.com")

> I tried a number of such expedients. This one:

>   (setq user-mail-address "brownh@hartford-hwp.com")

> Seems to kill the From line altogether. I have to type the entire line
> by hand when I use this line in ~/.gnus.

That is odd. If I set user-mail-adress - as you did above - and press
'm', I get a buffer that starts with:

,----
| To: 
| Subject: 
| From: brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Adam Sjøgren)
| Gcc: nnml+archive:mail-2005
| Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark
| --text follows this line--
`----

>> ,----[ C-h v user-mail-address RET ]
>> | `user-mail-address' is a variable declared in Lisp.
>> |   -- loaded from "sendmail"
>> | 
>> | Value: "asjo@koldfront.dk"

> This was not much help:

>   user-mail-address's value is 
>   "brownh@hartford-hwp.com"

Uhm, you cut the documentation that might be of help - the lines
describing from what variables user-mail-adress is generated (if you
do not set it yourself later).


  Best regards,

-- 
 "Q: Who tells you what to do?                                Adam Sjøgren
  A: The Bell Telephone Company. The telephone rings     asjo@koldfront.dk
     and I do what I'm told to do."


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-08 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-08 13:25 Haines Brown
2005-07-08 14:40 ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-07-08 15:34   ` Haines Brown
2005-07-08 16:30     ` Haines Brown
2005-07-08 22:23     ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2005-07-09  2:00       ` Haines Brown
2005-07-09  8:24         ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-07-09 13:30           ` Haines Brown
2005-07-10 16:30             ` Haines Brown

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