On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: > Dan Hitt [2018-03-29 13:50:54-07] wrote: > >> In emacs, i tried the address otheruser@host, otheruser, >> otheruser@localhost, otheruser@host.local >> >> Here, 'host' is to stand for the hostname of my box, stripped of any >> domain information. >> >> In all four cases, it opened a new tab in my firefox browser, showing >> gmail, with the message loaded, and the 'To' field populated. (In the >> case of otheruser, it was underlined in red.) > > (Sorry for not having read previous messages the the thread.) > > Emacs has different ways to send mail and that's configured with > variable send-mail-function or message-send-mail-function (if you use > message-mode for composing mail). > > It seems to me that you want to use locally installed sendmail program > (or compatible) for sending mail so you would configure Emacs like this: > > (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail) > > -- > /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. <https://keybase.io/tlikonen> // > // PGP: 4E10 55DC 84E9 DFF6 13D7 8557 719D 69D3 2453 9450 ///
Thanks Teemu. That actually works. The variable name message-send-mail-function is similar to send-mail-function, which David had suggested i investigate and deal with. However, send-mail-function seems to be set up in some part of my .emacs.d/init.el that i did not write (part of custom-set-variables, and it has a warning to be careful when modifying it by hand). So i didn't pursue send-mail-function. However, message-send-mail-function is not mentioned in my .emacs.d/init.el, so i suppose i should be more relaxed about it (??). Anyhow, it works, and this seems to be a complete solution to my problem. Thanks again! (And thanks everybody else for all the ideas and suggestions, which are all educational and useful.) dan
