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From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Envelope sender lost from sending after gnus-draft-edit-message
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:42:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84isv9mpno.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l6vfzqdaa51.fsf@williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu>

"Andrew A. Raines" <drew@poured.net> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> "Andrew A. Raines" <drew@poured.net> writes:
>>
>>> What's the difference sendmail-wise between hitting `C-c C-c' on
>>> a newly composed messge and doing it after `D e'?
>>
>> Gnus (sometimes) passes "-f foo" as an arg to sendmail, where the
>> foo comes from a (buffer-local?) variable.
>
> OK, this makes sense.  But why does Gnus pass -f sometimes?

Because sendmail would otherwise build an envelope from from the user
name and the host name.  That's not always a meaningful email
address.
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-24 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-11 17:03 Drew Raines
2003-02-22 21:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-23 21:14   ` Andrew A. Raines
2003-02-23 21:35     ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-24  5:29       ` Andrew A. Raines
2003-03-01 22:11       ` Andrew A. Raines
2003-02-24  7:03     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-24 16:58       ` Andrew A. Raines
2003-02-24 19:09         ` Andrew A. Raines
2003-02-24 19:42         ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-03-01 23:46 Jesper Harder
2003-03-02  0:25 ` Andrew A. Raines
2003-03-02  0:50   ` Jesper Harder
2003-03-02  6:24     ` Andrew A. Raines
2003-03-02 16:47       ` Jesper Harder

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