Subject: Bug#2318: emacs sendmail complaints

From: [email-masked] (Mark W. Eichin)
Date: 16 Jul 1996 04:00:38 -0400

Currently, emacs will check the variable sendmail-program; it's still
defaulting to /usr/lib/sendmail, and sendmail-program isn't set to
anything, but I'm not inclined to set up an override for that unless
the mailer packages stop providing /usr/lib/sendmail.

As for the default use of "-f (user-login-name)", perhaps you could be
clearer about why you *wouldn't* want to pass that?  I'd suggest that
perhaps the problem is in Smail, if it deals any differently in this
case... but I'd need more information to really decide, so I won't
close this report just yet.

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From: Richard Kettlewell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 23:01:36 +0100 (BST)

Mark W. Eichin writes:

>clearer about why you *wouldn't* want to pass that?

Suppose my login name is unrelated to my email address?  For the MUA
to override it is potentially a foolish thing to do in such a
situation.

With a correctly set up mailer, there's no good reason to use the -f
option in the normal course of sending mail.

>I'd suggest that perhaps the problem is in Smail, if it deals any
>differently in this case... but I'd need more information to really
>decide, so I won't close this report just yet.

In my original bug report I said it made it hard to do `non-obvious
things' ... unfortunately they're sufficiently non-obvious that I
can't remember what they were, and I certainly can't make smail do
anything stupid by adding `-f richard' when calling it directly.

Perhaps it's a more recent version of smail, with some obscure bug
fixed.  I don't know.

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