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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 1997 12:38:16 -0800
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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.

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