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"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.