From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/12301 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Setting Return-Path to From address Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:20:15 +0200 Message-ID: <878wk5bagw.fsf@arcor.de> References: <87zlco32n5.fsf@rennil.internal.hjarding.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244305241 29465 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2009 16:20:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 16:20:41 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 06 18:20:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MCydJ-0007oz-Ot for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:20:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40510 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCydJ-00020m-4X for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:20:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCydG-0001vw-Ry for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:20:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MCydB-0001hE-Df for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60838 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MCydB-0001gr-6c for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47565 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCydA-0007aG-OU for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MCyd9-0006DC-3r for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:20:27 +0000 Original-Received: from dslc-082-082-187-228.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.82.187.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:20:27 +0000 Original-Received: from deng by dslc-082-082-187-228.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:20:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslc-082-082-187-228.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:k+iLfYjsfNrRi24roC+AaBUYwrc= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:12301 Archived-At: Mark Nyqvist Hjarding writes: > Sometimes I would like to change the from address when sending an email > and this works by just changing it in the Message buffer before sending > it. The problem is that the Return-Path is still set to the value of > address. Is there a way to force Return-Path to be the same as From? This depends on how you actually send the mail on your system, but the following snippet might do what you want: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (defun DE-set-envelope () (let ((from (cadr (mail-extract-address-components (message-field-value "from"))))) (when mail-specify-envelope-from (setq mail-envelope-from from)))) (setq mail-specify-envelope-from t) (add-hook 'message-send-hook 'DE-set-envelope) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- See also the documentation for mail-specify-envelope-from. -David