From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs, Gnus, sendmail ?
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:27:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9ps47zncx.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871wgnano4.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu>
On Thu, Jun 07 2007, Joel J. Adamson wrote:
> news@absamail.co.za writes:
>> Also emacs apparently uses sendmail to send mail.
>
> It only uses sendmail if you've set up sendmail (the Unix program).
> Otherwise it uses sendmail.el (`slocate sendmail.el`)
,----
| ;; Useful to set in site-init.el
| ;;;###autoload
| (defcustom send-mail-function
| (if (and window-system (memq system-type '(darwin windows-nt)))
| 'mailclient-send-it
| 'sendmail-send-it)
`----
I.e. on Mac OS X and Windows, the default is to pass the mail to "the
system's mail client". Otherwise it is the sendmail program.
>> But the 'return-path/from' fields are not configured.
>> And sendmail.cf is a 57K monster !
Even when using the traditional sendmail.(com|org) program, you don't
need to edit the sendmail.cf file directly.
> Configure -> play around -> configure -> play around -> configure ->
> testing (this used to be called playing around but now you've found a
> systematic way to do it)
>
> Or, the alternative:
>
> configure -> play around -> throw hands up -> configure -> lose
> mail -> configure -> throw hands way up -> lose more mail -> use Thunderbird.
Are you trying to say that you lost mail using Gnus?
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-07 3:35 news
2007-06-07 9:37 ` Hadron
2007-06-07 12:56 ` Dan Espen
2007-06-07 13:39 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-06-07 17:27 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2007-06-08 3:13 ` Tim X
2007-06-08 9:42 ` Dick Hoogendijk
2007-06-08 14:35 ` Tim X
2007-06-08 14:04 ` Reiner Steib
2007-06-08 14:38 ` Tim X
2007-06-08 14:23 ` Joel J. Adamson
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