bug#29427: Problem sending emails in message-mode after restart

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

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Basil


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> Re: bug#29427: Problem sending emails in message-mode after restart
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> Sun, 26 Nov 2017 08:20:40 +0100
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> >>> When I first send an e-mail in emacs, 'send-mail-function'
> >>> isn't defined [...]
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> >> I'm not sure how `send-mail-function' comes into it, and am a bit
> >> confused by your report: you say when you first send an email in emacs,
> >> it isn't set, but later say when you restart emacs, it is defined.
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> Once I send an e-mail from 'sendmail-query-once', 'send-mail-function'
> is set to 'sendmail-send-it' in my config file by the
> 'sendmail-query-once' process. Things then work until I restart emacs.
> After restarting emacs, message-mode tries to incorrectly guess the
> 'From' field of my e-mail even though it is already present.
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> > Actually Emmanuel is saying the opposite, namely that
> > `send-mail-function' is somehow undefined until restarting
> > Emacs.  My issue with this is that `send-mail-function'
> > should always be defined as either `sendmail-send-it' or
> > `sendmail-query-once' when starting Emacs with the -Q flag,
> > in all versions of Emacs until at least as far back as 23.
> > Perhaps some custom configuration code or package is
> > misbehaving?
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> I'm sorry, I misspoke, I meant that I'm not defining
> 'send-mail-function' in my config file. I just checked and it is indeed
> set to 'sendmail-query-once' when not set in my config file.
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> >> Anyway, if you're using something based on message-mode, you should
> >> probably just set `message-send-mail-function' directly.
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> > +1
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> So this is my problem, when 'send-mail-function' is set to
> 'sendmail-send-it' or when 'message-send-mail-function' is set to
> 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail', somewhere in the message mode, the
> code tries to guess my From and sets it incorrectly event though there
> is already a valid from in the message.
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> To get things to work, I have to remove those settings set by
> 'sendmail-query-once' from my config file and restart emacs. Things then
> work for that session.
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> Sorry for my bad initial explanation.
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> Thanks,
> Emmanuel
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