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Re: [VM] Differences between IMAP-FCC and FCC


From: blueman
Subject: Re: [VM] Differences between IMAP-FCC and FCC
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:49:20 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Uday Reddy <address@hidden> writes:

> blueman writes:
>
>> 1. Is there any reason that IMAP-FCC doesn't include a 'From:' line whereas
>>    FCC does include a 'From:' line? The net result is that for IMAP-FCC,
>>    the vm summary gets the sender from the "from" line which is often then
>>    the meaningless "VM"
>
> FCC is a feature of the Emacs mail-mode, which obviously knows nothing about
> IMAP.  IMAP-FCC was added by Rob F to save a file copy *before* we hand the
> message over to mail-mode.
>
> To get a "From:" header in the IMAP-FCC copy, you should set the
> `vm-mail-header-from' variable so that you don't depend on mail-mode to fill
> it in for you.  I think we had a discussion about it earlier in the mailing
> list. 

Setting vm-mail-header-from still fails to give me a "From:" header in
the copy made by "IMAP-FCC:".

Also, it seems with "FCC:" that user-full-name and user-mail-address
*override* the setting of vm-mail-header-from which seems to defeat the
purpose.

Am I missing something or is this a bug?


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