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Re: user-mail-address: customize hostname part per site

#87645
From: Kevin Rodgers
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.
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Subject: Re: user-mail-address: customize hostname part per site
Date: 13 Sep 1994 14:45:34 -0400
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