From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5327 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Haines Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: header error Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 02:00:46 GMT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com Message-ID: <87mzowd9gx.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> References: <87fyupwhss.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> <87wto1qs25.fsf@koldfront.dk> <87hdf5e2gf.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> <877jg1ndib.fsf@koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671067 27005 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:31:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:07 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!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 1120874446 ST000 69.0.37.40 (Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:00:46 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:00:46 EDT X-UserInfo1: FKPO@MC@@S@CBW@[AZNX_^UDFZ_LPOPDLXUNNH\KMAVNDQUBLNTC@AWZWDXZXQ[K\FFSKCVM@F_N_DOBWVWG__LG@VVOIPLIGX\\BU_B@\P\PFX\B[APHTWAHDCKJF^NHD[YJAZMCY_CWG[SX\Y]^KC\HSZRWSWKGAY_PC[BQ[BXAS\F\\@DMTLFZFUE@\VL Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5469 Original-Lines: 76 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5469 Tue Jan 17 17:35:07 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5327 Archived-At: > >> ,----[ 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). I have these two lines in ~/.gnus: (setq user-mail-address "brownh@hartford-hwp.com") (setq mail-host-address "brownh@hartford-hwp.com") I also have: (setq user-full-name "Haines Brown") Here's my message header: Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Re: header error References: <87fyupwhss.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> <87wto1qs25.fsf@koldfront.dk> <87hdf5e2gf.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> <877jg1ndib.fsf@koldfront.dk> This message will out OK without the From line because all that's needed, apparently, is the envelope From line. The user-mail-address has a default value that I'm overwriting, and I wonder where it gets it's value. As for mail-host-address, it uses (system-name) (but I don't know how to display the current value of a variable in emacs). In any case, the basic file /etc/emacs/site.start.d/00debian-vars.el suggests that the default sets mailname to the value of /etc/mailname, which in turn is "hartford-hwp.com". I am very uncertain how I should have defined /etc/mailname, but here I've changed it to "brownh@hartford-hwp.com", but it didn't help. I'm also very uncertain as to how to define /etc/hostname, and I used the value "teufel.hartford-hwp.com". Some places I read seemed to say I should use the FQDN, rather than local hostname ("teufel"). I've asked around on both of these issues, but never got a reply. I'd love to hear some wise advice here. In any case, I don't see that it would cause the header From: line to be missing entirely. Perhaps because of this configuration, I get odd returns from the hostname command: $ hostname -a localhost.localdomain teufel.hartford-hwp.com $ hostname - d [nothing is returned for the domain name] $ hostname -f localhost $ hostname -s localhost Something very odd is going on. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM