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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [comp.xemacs.xemacs]: forwarded message from Michael Uelschen
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David Moore writes:
 > Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 > 
 > > In the rest of your message you move quite far from what I
 > > perceive to be the basic problem, which is that Emacs guesses
 > > whether the current host name is the right name to use for
 > > e-mail, and it guesses wrong and mail bounces as a result.
 > 
 > Ok, then I think we are a bit of agreement.  But I'm saying you can't
 > use the rule "let sendmail figure it out" because that doesn't work for
 > things that don't talk to sendmail.  The only way to find out someone's
 > e-mail address is to ask them.
 > 
 > Turning off the default choice for user-mail-address is fine, but only
 > if any attempt to use that unset variable causes the user to be queried
 > for their email address.

OK.  The code Per sent looks OK to me except the function ought
to be named user-mail-address instead of query-user-mail-address,
since it might not query.

It's most closely related to sendmail.el so it ought to go in
that file, I think.

