From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5319 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Haines Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: header error Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:34:40 GMT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com Message-ID: <87hdf5e2gf.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> References: <87fyupwhss.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> <87wto1qs25.fsf@koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671062 26978 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:31:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:06 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsmst01b.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr33.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!0fe8b877!not-for-mail Original-Sender: brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.0.37.40 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssvr33.news.prodigy.com 1120836880 ST000 69.0.37.40 (Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:34:40 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:34:40 EDT X-UserInfo1: FKPO@MC@O@TWB_TXYRHFJFXB[B]NQBQLGPQRZ_MHEQR@ETUCCNSKQFCY@TXDX_WHSVB]ZEJLSNY\^J[CUVSA_QLFC^RQHUPH[P[NRWCCMLSNPOD_ESALHUK@TDFUZHBLJ\XGKL^NXA\EVHSP[D_C^B_^JCX^W]CHBAX]POG@SSAZQ\LE[DCNMUPG_VSC@VJM Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5461 Original-Lines: 47 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5461 Tue Jan 17 17:35:06 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5319 Archived-At: 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 > > > Using it causes the error message to appear: > > > Denied posting - The From looks strange : "Haines Brown > > " > > > 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