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

2018-03-30 Thread Teemu Likonen
Teemu Likonen [2018-03-30 08:34:26+03] wrote: > (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it) > (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) It also seems that I should actually think because I'm mixing up things. smtpmail-send-it function is for SMTP protocol (not sendmail

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

2018-03-29 Thread Teemu Likonen
Teemu Likonen [2018-03-30 07:05:38+03] wrote: > It seems to me that you want to use locally installed sendmail program > (or compatible) for sending mail so you would configure Emacs like this: > > (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail) Sorry, here's a correction.

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

2018-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Dan Hitt [2018-03-29 13:50:54-07] wrote: > >> In emacs, i tried the address otheruser@host, otheruser, >> otheruser@localhost, otheruser@host.local >> >> Here, 'host' is to stand for the hostname of my box, stripped of any >> domain informati

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

2018-03-29 Thread Teemu Likonen
Dan Hitt [2018-03-29 13:50:54-07] wrote: > In emacs, i tried the address otheruser@host, otheruser, > otheruser@localhost, otheruser@host.local > > 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 br

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

2018-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
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 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 re

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

2018-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:02 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 13:50:54 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:32 PM, David Wright >> 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 thin

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

2018-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Mar 2018 at 13:50:54 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:32 PM, David Wright > 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),

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

2018-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:32 PM, David Wright 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:

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

2018-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Mar 2018 at 22:42:43 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: > Today i needed to send a message to another user on my debian box. > > 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

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

2018-03-29 Thread Dan Hitt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:42 PM, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > >>So . . . if you want to send mail to another user on your box, and >>you do not want it to get bounced around on the internet but only >>to go into some spool queue somewhere strictly on your local machine, >>how do you do it? > > S

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

2018-03-29 Thread songbird
Dan Hitt wrote: > Today i needed to send a message to another user on my debian box. > > 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 then hit control-c

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

2018-03-29 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-29, wrote: > > So if you want to send mail to someone in the same box (or in > your local network or...), you'll have to set up a mail transport > which knows how to do that (exim, postfix, whatever). > I believe this is the default, no (exim set up for local mail only, so that variou

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

2018-03-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:42:34AM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > > >So . . . if you want to send mail to another user on your box, and > >you do not want it to get bounced around on the internet but only > >to go into some spool queue somewhere

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

2018-03-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-03-29, Dan Hitt wrote: > Today i needed to send a message to another user on my debian box. > > 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 then

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

2018-03-29 Thread Dominik George
Hi, >So . . . if you want to send mail to another user on your box, and >you do not want it to get bounced around on the internet but only >to go into some spool queue somewhere strictly on your local machine, >how do you do it? Sounds very much like an emacs anti-feature. $ mail -s Spammedyspam

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

2018-03-28 Thread Dan Hitt
Today i needed to send a message to another user on my debian box. 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 then hit control-c control-c to mail it, but was