Added another way to set the from address automatically when sending mail through...

[notmuch-wiki] / emacstips.mdwn

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@@ -54,18 +54,18 @@ that it will hide the sent mail in your emacs frame stack, but it will
 not close it. If you type several mails in an emacs session they will
 accumulate and make switching between buffers more annoying. You can
 avoid that behavior by adding `(setq message-kill-buffer-on-exit t)`
-in your `.emacs` file (or doing `M-x customize-variable
-message-kill-buffer-on-exit`) which will really close the mail window
-after sending it.
+in your `.emacs` file (or doing `M-x
+customize-variable<RET>message-kill-buffer-on-exit<RET>`) which will
+really close the mail window after sending it.
 
 ## Attaching files
 
 Using the `M-x mml-attach-file` command, you can attach any file to be
-send with your mail. By default this command is bound to the menu item
-*Attachments--Attach File* with the key binding `C-c C-a`.  The
+sent with your mail. By default this command is bound to the menu item
+*Attachments--Attach File* with the key binding `C-c C-a`. The
 variable `mml-dnd-attach-options` (`M-x
-customize-variable<RET>mml-dnd-attach-options`) can be set to allow
-the prompting for various attachment options (such as
+customize-variable<RET>mml-dnd-attach-options<RET>`) can be set to
+allow the prompting for various attachment options (such as
 inline/attachment) if you want to do that.
 
 For those who prefer a more graphical interface, you can also simply
@@ -250,6 +250,13 @@ With that in place, you need a `.msmtprc` with the accounts configured
 for the domains you want to send out using specific SMTP servers and
 the rest will go to the default account.
 
+If you have a hard time getting the above to work for you, as I did,
+it's also possible to add a message-send-mail-hook in your .emacs to
+send the from header explicitly as an argument to msmtp:
+
+(http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusMSMTP#toc2)
+
+
 ## <span id="address_completion">Address completion when composing</span>
 
 There are currently two solutions to this: