Sorry everybody for mail-bombing the list, don't know how my previous reply took off so fast :( :( :(
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:02 PM, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 13:50:54 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: .... > The third one, otheruser@localhost. There should be a line in > /etc/hosts reading > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > That indeed is there. > > If I type (in emacs) ^H v send-mail-function > it tells me that that variable is set to sendmail-send-it which > probably explains why emacs hands the email off to exim. > Perhaps yours is set to mailclient-send-it? See > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mail-Sending.html#Mail-Sending > You are exactly correct (i.e., it does read mailclient-send-it). Now, in fact, my init.el does contain an assignment for send-mail-function (if i'm reading it correctly). But i don't think i put it there: it seems to be part of something called 'custom-set-variables', and it has the warning 'If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful'. So for now i think i'll leave it alone until i get a chance to understand the situation better. Thanks David for pointing it out to me. And sorry everybody for slipping on the send button!!! :( dan
