Re: "From: address is not valid." when sending mail

[Nick Roberts]

levander writes:
 > I'm not sure why we don't have better documentation for emacs.  From
 > rummaging around the info docs for a couple of hours I found out that
 > in gnus, the email address you set for an account overrides some user-
 > email-address variable.  Simply trying setting that user-email-address
 > on a whim, it turns out that that is where smtpmail gets the value
 > from to set in that "MAIL FROM" command above.
 > 
 > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think user-email-address even
 > shows up in the smtpmail documentation.  I couldn't find it.

Don't you mean user-mail-address?  This is mentioned repeatedly in the Emacs
manual.

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