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- From: palmerp@math.orst.edu (Paul A Palmer)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
- Subject: Re: Help setting variables
- Message-ID: <PALMERP.92Nov19192126@phoebus.math.orst.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 03:21:26 GMT
- Article-I.D.: phoebus.PALMERP.92Nov19192126
- References: <VAITKUS.92Nov16081050@ceres.lexmark.com> <BUZZ.92Nov18091440@lion.bear.com>
- Reply-To: Paul Palmer <palmerp@math.orst.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Math, Oregon State University
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- In-reply-to: buzz@bear.com's message of 18 Nov 92 14:14:40 GMT
-
- In article <BUZZ.92Nov18091440@lion.bear.com> buzz@bear.com (Buzz Moschetti) writes:
-
- In article <VAITKUS.92Nov16081050@ceres.lexmark.com> vaitkus@ceres.lexmark.com (Keith Vaitkus) writes:
-
- Could some kind soul tell me how I would change the From: field in
- the header? My company has one and only one address for employees --
- It is fixed, and is not related to what machine we post from. However
- whenever I post with gnus, it makes my From: address equal to the
- machine I am posting from -- Any mail people send to this address
- will be bounced! since it is not the official company address. *sigh*
-
- It's not the "From:" header you want to change -- it's "Reply-to:". Put
- this in your ~/.emacs:
-
- (setq mail-default-reply-to "vaitkus@ceres.lexmark.com (Keith Vaitkus)")
-
- I'm not sure what this will do. mail-default-reply-to is a variable in
- mh-e.el. I grepped for it on $EMACS/lisp/rmail*.el, but didn't find it.
-
- Here's an excerpt from the gnus manual that I think answers the question:
-
- File: gnus Node: GENERICFROM, Prev: Domain, Up: Environment, Next: GENERICPATH
-
- GENERICFROM
- -----------
-
- If the variable `gnus-use-generic-from' is non-`nil', the local host
- name of your machine will not appear in the `From:' field of article
- headers you post. This is called the "GENERICFROM" feature in the Bnews
- system. This may be useful if there are many workstations connected to
- each other in a local area network, and aliases service or automatic
- forwarding of mail is supported between the workstations.
-
- To use the GENERICFROM, put the following code in `.emacs',
- `site-init.el' or `default.el'. If you are a system administrator and
- are installing GNUS for other users, `site-init.el' is the best place to
- define it because the definition is common to all users of the system
- having the same domain and organization (*Note Domain and Organization:
- Domain.).
-
- (setq gnus-use-generic-from t)
-
- As a special case of the GENERICFROM feature, if the variable
- `gnus-use-generic-from' is a string, it is used as your domain instead
- of the definition of the environment variable `DOMAINNAME' or the
- variable `gnus-your-domain' (*Note Domain and Organization: Domain.).
-
- --
- Paul Palmer
- Department of Mathematics E-mail: palmerp@math.orst.edu
- Kidder Hall 368
- Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4605
-