From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36341 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sender header? Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:59:02 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Message-ID: <01May24.115917edt.115250@gateway.intersys.com> References: <01May23.141128edt.115245@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171942 8109 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:45:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25196 invoked by alias); 24 May 2001 15:59:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25191 invoked from network); 24 May 2001 15:59:38 -0000 Original-Received: from gateway.intersys.com (HELO intersys.com) (198.133.74.253) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 May 2001 15:59:38 -0000 Original-Received: by gateway.intersys.com id <115250>; Thu, 24 May 2001 11:59:17 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Original-Lines: 37 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36341 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36341 * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) on Thu, 24 May 2001 | By default, Gnus creates a From header for all outgoing messages. | This is because From is mentioned in message-required-mail-headers and | message-required-news-headers. And nobody complains about From being wrong. Therefore it is safe to assume that in cases where a correct From field is (or would be) generated, a correct Sender field would also be generated when the From field is not canonical for the sending host. | > | Only add a Sender header if the From header is different from the | > | normal value. | > This is what Gnus does now, yes? | No. As you can see in this message, Gnus automatically adds a Sender | header. I have changed the variable user-mail-address. Then what I said is correct, and what Gnus does is also correct as far as RFC 2822 is concerned. I have several mailboxes: ratinox@rei.nerv.gweep.net, ratinox@newsguy.com, SamuraiRat@hotmail.com, ratinox@peorth.gweep.net, and others. They are all me, but that does not mean ratinox@newsguy.com == ratinox@peorth.gweep.net. They are different mailboxes. If I were to send a message from my local machine (peorth.gweep.net) and address it from my Hotmail address, the MUA is required to generate a Sender header with ratinox@peorth.gweep.net as its contents. You have done exactly the same thing. The fact that your mailboxes are within the same domain is irrelevant, and lucy should have an MX record that points it at the cs.uni-dortmund.de mail servers, which in fact it does, which makes Kai.Grossjohann@lucy.CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE a valid mailbox. Put susinctly, Gnus is doing exactly what it should, when it should, according to RFC 2822, and I do not understand why you want to break it :). -- Rat \ When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ returned to its special container and PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ kept under refrigeration.