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From: Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
Subject: Re: header error
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:30:15 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5ptdzvs.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hdf5e2gf.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>

Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> writes:

> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
> > 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.

Yep (following up on myself - sorry), I see that my mail arriving on
the newsgroup has the proper From: line. Am I correct to assume that
this line was culled from the envelope From line? If so, then the
user-mail-address apparently sets the envelope From line, not the
message header From: line. 

-- 
 
       Haines Brown
       KB1GRM       


  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-08 16:30 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 [this message]
2005-07-08 22:23     ` Adam Sjøgren
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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