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Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

From	Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine
Date	2018-03-30 06:20 +0200
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Sorry everybody for mail-bombing the list, don't know how my previous
reply took off so fast :( :( :(

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:02 PM, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 13:50:54 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote:
....
> The third one, otheruser@localhost. There should be a line in
> /etc/hosts reading
>
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
>

That indeed is there.

>
> If I type (in emacs) ^H v send-mail-function
> it tells me that that variable is set to sendmail-send-it which
> probably explains why emacs hands the email off to exim.
> Perhaps yours is set to mailclient-send-it? See
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mail-Sending.html#Mail-Sending
>

You are exactly correct (i.e., it does read mailclient-send-it).

Now, in fact, my init.el does contain an assignment for
send-mail-function (if i'm reading it correctly).

But i don't think i put it there:  it seems to be part of something
called 'custom-set-variables', and it has the warning 'If you edit it
by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful'.

So for now i think i'll leave it alone until i get a chance to
understand the situation better.

Thanks David for pointing it out to me.

And sorry everybody for slipping on the send button!!! :(

dan

Thread

how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 07:50 +0200
  Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de> - 2018-03-29 09:10 +0200
    Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-03-29 09:20 +0200
      Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-29 11:50 +0200
    Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 19:40 +0200
  Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 09:10 +0200
  Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-03-29 13:40 +0200
  Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-29 22:40 +0200
    Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 23:00 +0200
      Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-30 06:10 +0200
      Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 06:10 +0200
        Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-30 06:20 +0200
      Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2018-03-30 06:50 +0200
        Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-30 07:30 +0200
        Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2018-03-30 07:40 +0200
          Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2018-03-30 09:40 +0200

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