Re: Who sets Sender:?

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

* Bjørn Mork <bmork@dod.no>  on Wed, 22 May 2002
| If I were to state my beliefs, I would say that the intented meaning
| of this section is that a Sender never should be added as long as the
| _person_ writing the message and the _person_ entering the message
| into the mail transport are the same:

This requirement fails for programs, programs acting on behalf of users,
users acting on behalf of themselves for political reasons, and possibly
many other cases, none of which an MUA can possibly determine without help
from the user who presumably understands what he is doing.  Fact is, most
users do not know what they are doing.

[...]
| Which is a problem for whom/what?

We humans who may need information for political or technical reasons.

[...]
| One can either be a religious fanatic, or try to adapt as much as
| possible within the _actual_ RFC requirements.

I have stated nothing that violates the letter or the spirit of RFC 2822.
Quite the contrary, I have proposed a solution that meets all of the
requirements of all of the relevant RFCs, not just RFC 2822.

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