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



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. If you use Emacs's message-mode for
composing mail:

    (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it)

If you use mail-mode instead:

    (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)

Emacs's default mail user agent can be configured with variable
mail-user-agent. I also suggest reading the documentation of all the
above variables. For example: C-h v message-send-mail-function RET

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