On 25 May 2006 22:14:32 +0200, Urs wrote: > I have a domain "isnogud.escape.de" which I use for the From: header > in mail and news. All my machines have hostnames > <host>.isnogud.escape.de and Gnus therefore wants to set the From: > header to urs@<host>.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? Does it help to set user-mail-address? Like this, in your ~/.gnus, perhaps: (setq user-mail-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") ,----[ C-h v user-mail-address RET ] | `user-mail-address' is a variable declared in Lisp. | -- loaded from "sendmail" | | Value: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | | Documentation: | *Full mailing address of this user. | This is initialized based on `mail-host-address', | after your init file is read, in case it sets `mail-host-address'. `---- Perhaps it is sufficient to set mail-host-address in your .emacs Best regards, -- "Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a Adam Sjøgren sarcastic alien..." [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
