Re: [PATCH] [packages] sendmail.el: try REPLYTO from environment
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 17:54, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> If there is a "standard" env var that is used for a
sender address,
> please let me know... I guess that could be used for populating
> user-mail-address instead of REPLYTO.
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? :-)
Bingo, this is what I was looking for (the "breaking the unix culture"
part).
[...]
OTOH, calling user-mail-address SHOULD query the user for the email
address if it isn't known, and save it for future uses, so what is the
problem? Doesn't it work?
Yes, it does, and of course there is not much of a problem here. But
user-mail-address is not always interactive, for example with
add-change-log-entry. And for the rare cases that this actually is an
issue, I think it wouldn't hurt if we could guess better :)
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Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta(a)xemacs.org