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Article #87645Re: user-mail-address: customize hostname part per site
From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 18:45
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 18:45
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In article <9409122009.AA21685@alex.x.org> gildea@x.org (Stephen Gildea) wrote: >The new variable user-mail-address in Emacs 19.26 is a good idea, but >the initialization of it in normal-top-level could be more flexible. > >I'd like to see the concept of a mail host, which might be customized >in site-init.el. For example, no matter what machine someone here is >using, we want our mail address to appear as, say, "gildea@x.org", >not, say, "gildea@foo.x.org". Me, too. >A sample implementation: [deleted] I'd like to see user-mail-address default first to the value of the REPLYTO environment variable, which is respected by the `rn' and `tin' newsreaders, and then (if REPLYTO isn't set) to (concat (user-login-name) "@" (or mail-domain-name (system-name))) as suggested by Stephen. -- Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com> Project Engineer Information Handling Services Electronic Systems Development 15 Inverness Way East, M/S A203 GO BUFFS! Beat Wisconsin! Englewood CO 80112 USA (303) 397-2807[voice]/-2620[fax]
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,19f4a8803d561cb4,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-13 19:31:47 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!ddsw1!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.cic.net!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ihs.com!kevinr From: kevinr@ihs.com (Kevin Rodgers) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: user-mail-address: customize hostname part per site Date: 13 Sep 1994 14:45:34 -0400 Organization: Information Handling Services, Electronic Systems Development Lines: 26 Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <9409131832.AA07794@ihs.com> Reply-To: Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>