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Re: more on the mail problem I reported...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Jul 31 11:50:58 1998

To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Jul 1998 11:50:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: Dan Winship's message of Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:39:54 -0400

Um, I already do this, and it didn't help.  So, no, this isn't
the problem.

-derek

Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU> writes:

> 
> More likely, your MTA is setting the envelope from address to be
> "warlord@`hostname`". 8.1 machines would rewrite that to
> "warlord@mit.edu", but 8.2 no longer does this.
> 
> (setq mail-host-address "mit.edu") will DTRT in all emacs-based
> mailers I know of, but then, you should be getting that out of the
> site defaults anyway...
> 
> -- Dan

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