Re: Who sets Sender:?

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

* prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)  on Wed, 22 May 2002
| You're answering this question: "in what cases should the MUA guess
| whether Sender is needed?"  That isn't the question I asked.

I answered -that- question in one of my earliest posts: if the From field
is not user@host.domain.  That was right before I pointed out that this is
a religious debate.

[...]
| Will that incorrectness ever cause problems?

Potentially, yes.  Received headers will tell you the route a message has
taken, but it will not necessarilly tell you anything about the humans
involved.

| A wrong guess in the other direction can cause problems.  "Correct" isn't
| always the best thing to be.

A wrong guess in the other direction will not cause problems unless someone
violates RFC 2822 and misuses Sender.

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