Re: choose/set from address & gcc-sent_mail

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> You can stop Gnus tickling you by setting the `user-mail-address' to a
>> default "from" value. That will at least prevent you from getting those
>> bogus values.
>>
>> But that won't run the appropriate gnus-parameters, or set any other
>> headers up.
>>
>> There have been a few discussions about this on this and other lists
>> recently. Apparently there are a couple of external packages you can
>> try: Gnus Pers, and Gnus Alias:
>>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusPers
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusAlias
>>
>> I haven't tried them, but they are definitely there to solve this sort
>> of problem...
>>
>>> Does anyone have something like this set up?
>
> Tried playing with Gnus Alias. There doesn't seem to be a
> straightforward way of getting it to work with smtpmail-multi. So, I can
> get Gnus Alias to automatically set Sender and Gcc, but then my smtpmail
> server isn't set.

The wiki page claims that it can set: "Extra headers - a list of
arbitrary header to set (e.g. X-Archive: no)". I haven't used this and
don't know how it works, but I'll bet you can make it set the
X-SMTP-Server header, which would solve your problem.