Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:270 comp.emacs:2714
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!rutgers!bellcore!faline!ulysses!allegra!alice!wilber
From: wilber@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.emacs
Subject: Problem with Gnu Emacs rmail on an AT&T 3b1
Message-ID: <7667@alice.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 04:04:48 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
Lines: 21
Keywords: Emacs rmail reply address

I have a minor problem with Gnu Emacs rmail on my AT&T 3b1.  Since it's a one
user system most of my mail comes from remote computers communicating via uucp.
I am using the vanilla Unix mail that comes with the 3.51 software, and HDB
uucp.  A typical message from my mailbox starts like this:

   From uucp Mon Feb  1 05:26 EST 1988
   >From kw Mon Feb  1 00:22 EST 1988 remote from kathypc

The problem is that Emacs uses "uucp" as the address to reply to, rather than
kathypc!kw.  (This message is "from" uucp in the same sense that my bills are
"from" the mailman.)  So I always have to edit the "To" field when replying to
mail.  Is there a simple change of parameters to either Unix mail or Emacs so
that Emacs will figure out the proper return address?  Or <shudder> am I really
going to have to learn how to muck around with the elisp code for rmail?

Also, what is mh mail, as in mh-rmail and mh-smail?  (When I tried out mh-rmail
it complained about my lack of a .mh-profile file.)

Bob Wilber     Work:  UUCP: {ihnp4, mtune}!gauss!wilber
                      ARPA: wilber@gauss.att.com
               Home:  UUCP: {ihnp4, mtune}!gauss!heaven!rew