Re: Who sets Sender:?

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

* prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)  on Wed, 22 May 2002
| >> In what cases should the MUA guess that Sender is needed?
| ...
| >> I've only said that Gnus should not add Sender automatically.  In
| >> what circumstances would that qualify as Gnus constructing illegal
| >> headers?

| You didn't answer these questions, nor many others from previous
| messages.

Because the answers are obvious to anyone who bothers to think about them
for more than half a second.  RFC 2822 defines when a Sender header is
needed and when it must not be used.  The MUA should attempt to deterine if
a Sender header is needed for every message sent.  Failure to generate a
Sender header when one is required results in a technically incorrect
message.  When is a Sender header required?  When RFC 2822 says it is.
When should Gnus guess?  Always.  When should Gnus not create a Sender
header?  When one already exists or RFC 2822 says no.

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