From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9114 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: emacs, Gnus, sendmail ? Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:27:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1181187350.287690@vasbyt.isdsl.net> <871wgnano4.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181252431 17956 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2007 21:40:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:40:31 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 23:40:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HwPiV-0003Sp-1a for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwPiT-0007Yo-Vp for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:26 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Face: P05mdcZT&lL[-s2=mw~RsllZ0zZAb?vdE}.s 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:9114 Archived-At: 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/