Re: header error

[Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:25:56 GMT, Haines wrote:
> 
> > When I write a new message, the From line in my message header at
> > first reads: 
> 
> >   From: Haines Brown <hartford-hwp.com>
> 
> > Using it causes the error message to appear:
> 
> >   Denied posting - The From looks strange : "Haines Brown
> >   <hartford-hwp.com>"
> 
> > My work around is to edit the line so that in place of my domain name
> > is my e-mail address. 
> 
> 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.

> > I need to figure out where gnus is getting that information so that I
> > can correct the error at its source.
> 
> ,----[ 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"

-- 
 
       Haines Brown
       KB1GRM