[14293] in Athena Bugs
Re: emacs19 on Solaris Sun 7.7V
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Apr 7 22:10:33 1996
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:10:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: David K Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14290] in Athena Bugs"
> The application of the variable user-mail-address has changed.
The comment about this in the news file is cryptic:
** The new variable mail-from-style controls whether the From: header
should include the sender's full name, and if so, which format to use.
The documentation on user-mail-address ("Full mailing address of this
user") doesn't help much either. Basically, emacs (19.30, anyway)
wants user-mail-address to have just the email address, not all of
what goes into the from header.
If we set mail-from-style to nil in site-init, then we will avoid
break people's dotfiles; however, we won't get the benefit of full
names in email addresses when people (who don't set user-mail-address)
use ^x m.
I need to think about this for a while. We will either document the
change or disable it when emacs 19 becomes the default.
