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From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>
Subject: Re: Who sets Sender:?
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:24:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02May20.171937edt.119286@gateway.intersystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bsbak1ws.fsf@nwalsh.com> (Norman Walsh's message of "Mon, 20 May 2002 16:19:31 -0400")

* Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>  on Mon, 20 May 2002
| When I send mail, the Sender: goes out as "ndw@mercury", but
| (message-make-sender) returns "ndw@nwalsh.com". Why isn't
| sender set to message-make-sender?

Because then a Sender header would be unnecessary.  From and Sender should
never have the same mailbox.

Sender contains the mailbox of the agent responsible for submitting the
message to the network (MTA).  The idea is that while the originator
mailbox may be ndw@nwalsh.com, the Sender is the local user on the local
machine.

Anything more than that is likely to spark a religious war. :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-20 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-20 20:19 Norman Walsh
2002-05-20 21:24 ` Stainless Steel Rat [this message]
2002-05-21 13:43   ` Norman Walsh
2002-05-21 14:25     ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 14:38       ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-24 22:55     ` Steinar Bang
2002-05-26 13:48     ` Barry Fishman
2002-05-26 14:33       ` Harry Putnam
2002-05-26 17:17         ` Barry Fishman
2002-05-20 22:12 ` Matt Armstrong
2002-05-21  1:58   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 14:14     ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 15:04       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 15:27         ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 16:27           ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 16:56             ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 18:33               ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 18:50                 ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 19:04                   ` Matt Armstrong
     [not found]                     ` <84g00lma45.fsf@rjk.greenend.org.uk>
2002-05-21 22:07                       ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 12:05                         ` Richard Kettlewell
2002-05-21 19:46                   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 20:13                     ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 21:16                       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 21:51                         ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22  0:02                           ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 15:23                             ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 15:54                               ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 16:03                                 ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 17:04                                   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 17:25                                     ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 17:56                                       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 17:38                                     ` Bjørn Mork
2002-05-22 18:04                                       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 17:52     ` Matt Armstrong
2002-05-21 18:48       ` Stainless Steel Rat

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