Re: [PATCH] [packages] sendmail.el: try REPLYTO from environment

"Rendhalver (Peter Brown)" <rendhalver(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > > A little googling reveals FROM. However, I'm not sure if any of these > > is commonly used at all. And wouldn't it be breaking the unix culture > > if you didn't need to configure your email address into each and every > > application you use? :-) > > how many email applications do you use :P Over time I use most email applications. I hate having to configure each one of them with the same information. It should be sufficient to configure this into my machine once.

> > The situation is bad, of course, but the least worse solution I can > > think of is making XEmacs a proper Gnome and KDE application, then it > > could get your email address from Gnome/KDE. Doesn't work for > > Windows, CDE, tty etc though. > > and how many XEmacs users use gnome?? i used to but it pissed me off For those users that use gnome, it would make things better. For others, it wouldn't matter. But I don't know how to extract the users' email address out of gnome...