Re: setting the from header in outgoing mail and news

[Urs Thuermann]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> > 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 "urs@isnogud.escape.de")
> 
> ,----[ C-h v user-mail-address RET ]
> | `user-mail-address' is a variable declared in Lisp.
> |   -- loaded from "sendmail"
> | 
> | Value: "asjo@koldfront.dk"
> | 
> | 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

Ah, thanks for your prompt answer.  Setting mail-host-address in
.emacs does exactly what I want.  I think I should set it in
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el so that it works for all
users.


urs