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

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On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 13:50:54 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:32 PM, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed 28 Mar 2018 at 22:42:43 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote:
> ...
> >> I thought i'd just do what used to be the usual thing on a unix box:
> >> i compose-mail in emacs (control-x m), and drafted the text, and put
> >> in the other user's name in the To: line.
> ...
> > I just write username@localhost instead of username on its own.
> > That should be enough to stop it leaving the system.
> 
> Thanks David for your reply.
> 
> That doesn't seem to work for me, although maybe i'm not doing it
> exactly the way you are --- were you using emacs to manage it?

I just tested it and it worked fine, including the "bogus" message.
It also puts a jokey aside into Message-ID because I have no name
for my domain.

> In emacs, i tried the address otheruser@host, otheruser,
> otheruser@localhost, otheruser@host.local

The third one, otheruser@localhost. There should be a line in
/etc/hosts reading

127.0.0.1	localhost

> Here, 'host' is to stand for the hostname of my box, stripped of any
> domain information.
> 
> In all four cases, it opened a new tab in my firefox browser, showing
> gmail, with the message loaded, and the 'To' field populated.  (In the
> case of otheruser, it was underlined in red.)

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

> emacs also warned me that the addresses i was using 'might be bogus'.

Yep.

> However, invoking the 'mail' program directly does work for me, so i
> have a solution (although if i could work it through emacs, without
> having to do any serious configuration, it would be much better).

I haven't looked into how/whether Debian configures emacs according to
which other packages you install (and in what order).

Cheers,
David.

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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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