From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7395 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Urs Thuermann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: setting the from header in outgoing mail and news Date: 25 May 2006 22:14:32 +0200 Organization: escape e.V. - Verein zur Foerderung der Datenkommuniation Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148589648 22979 80.91.229.2 (25 May 2006 20:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 20:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 25 22:40:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjMdL-0007zq-WA for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 22:40:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjMdL-0000Wh-Hw for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 16:40:39 -0400 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77576 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!gaertner.de!escape.de!janus.isnogud.escape.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: janus.isnogud.escape.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7395 Archived-At: I have a domain "isnogud.escape.de" which I use for the From: header in mail and news. All my machines have hostnames .isnogud.escape.de and Gnus therefore wants to set the From: header to urs@.isnogud.escpae.de, which is not a valid email address. For mail I fix this with sendmail masquerading, for news I always have to add the correct From: header by hand. This is not only nasty (and I sometimes forget to set the header causing news posting with invalid email address), it also prevents me from canceling my news postings since Gnus thinks my articles are not my own when I try to cancel. This is probably because the From: header is different from what Gnus would put there. I have searched the Gnus manual but didn't find the solution. I have an old .gnus file which contains the setting of the variable gnus-use-generic-from, which I thought I have found in the docs quite some time ago, but which I can't find anymore. It also doesn't work. How can I make Gnus use the correct From: header in mail and news? urs