emacstips: got this simple enchangement from gnus-alias soutce

[obsolete/notmuch-wiki] / emacstips.mdwn

diff --git a/emacstips.mdwn b/emacstips.mdwn
index 0a40f64962b34fc9df496713888abc48e97f2d6e..dce246a045797ac2e6de0396287a753ee1db4f5c 100644 (file)
--- a/emacstips.mdwn
+++ b/emacstips.mdwn
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ To use the Notmuch emacs mode, first add the following line to your
 
        (require 'notmuch)
 
+or you can load the package via autoload:
+
+       (autoload 'notmuch "notmuch" "notmuch mail" t)
+
 Then, either run "emacs -f notmuch", or execute the command `M-x
 notmuch` from within a running emacs.
 
@@ -54,18 +58,18 @@ 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 +254,13 @@ 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 as described
+[here](http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusMSMTP#toc2) on the
+emacswiki.
+
+
 ## <span id="address_completion">Address completion when composing</span>
 
 There are currently two solutions to this:
@@ -303,3 +314,11 @@ is not required).
 Alternatively, you may prefer to use `mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime` instead
 of `mml-secure-sign-pgpmime` to sign the whole message instead of just one
 part.
+
+### Troubleshooting message-mode gpg support
+
+- If you have trouble with expired subkeys, you may have encounted
+  emacs bug #7931.  This is fixed in git commit 301ea744c on
+  2011-02-02.  Note that if you have the Debian package easypg
+  installed, it will shadow the fixed version of easypg included with
+  emacs.