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Subject: Re: header error
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:40:50 +0200
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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 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"
| 
| Documentation:
| *Full mailing address of this user.
| This is initialized based on `mail-host-address',
| after your init file is read, in case it sets `mail-host-address'.
`----


  Best regards,

-- 
 "Q: Who tells you what to do?                                Adam Sjøgren
  A: The Bell Telephone Company. The telephone rings     asjo@koldfront.dk
     and I do what I'm told to do."