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> Re: "From: address is not valid." when sending mail
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> Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:13:33 +0200
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> On Sat, Jun 30 2007, levander wrote:
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> > I'm not sure why we don't have better documentation for emacs.
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> Because nobody contributed better documentation.
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> > From rummaging around the info docs for a couple of hours I found
> > out that in gnus, the email address you set for an account overrides
> > some user- email-address variable.  Simply trying setting that
> > user-email-address on a whim, it turns out that that is where
> > smtpmail gets the value from to set in that "MAIL FROM" command
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> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think user-email-address even
> > shows up in the smtpmail documentation.  I couldn't find it.
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> I guess you meant `user-mail-address'.  When using Gnus, you should
> refer to it's documentation as well.  The Message manual (Gnus' mail
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> ,----[ (info "(message)Mail Variables") ]
> | `message-sendmail-envelope-from'
> |      When `message-sendmail-f-is-evil' is `nil', this specifies the
> |      address to use in the SMTP envelope.  If it is `nil', use
> |      `user-mail-address'.  If it is the symbol `header', use the `From'
> |      header of the message.
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> You can find this via index search `i From RET , , , ,' (`i' =
> `Info-index', `,' = `Info-index-next').
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> But I agree that it would be useful if the smtpmail documentation
> would also include something about the envelope From because it seem
> to be a frequent problem.
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> Bye, Reiner.
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