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From: Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>
Subject: Re: Who sets Sender:?
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:04:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ptzppbjk.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3u1p1ibc4.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 21 May 2002 14:50:45 -0400")

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> By "generated", do you mean automatically?  I would disagree with
> that.  Even if not, this is only a matter of SHOULD, not MUST, so I
> wouldn't say "required".

There is one case where it MUST be generated -- when the From: header
has multiple mailboxes.

I've never seen such a mail though.  Perhaps it was a more common
practice "in the old days."


Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> As I said, this is a religious debate, one that will not be resolved
> here and now, possibly never.

I will say that it frustrates me that RFC 2822 isn't more obvious
about the intended interpretation.

The books like the Bible should elicit religious debate, not RFCs.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-21 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-20 20:19 Norman Walsh
2002-05-20 21:24 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 13:43   ` Norman Walsh
2002-05-21 14:25     ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 14:38       ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-24 22:55     ` Steinar Bang
2002-05-26 13:48     ` Barry Fishman
2002-05-26 14:33       ` Harry Putnam
2002-05-26 17:17         ` Barry Fishman
2002-05-20 22:12 ` Matt Armstrong
2002-05-21  1:58   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 14:14     ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 15:04       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 15:27         ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 16:27           ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 16:56             ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 18:33               ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 18:50                 ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 19:04                   ` Matt Armstrong [this message]
     [not found]                     ` <84g00lma45.fsf@rjk.greenend.org.uk>
2002-05-21 22:07                       ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 12:05                         ` Richard Kettlewell
2002-05-21 19:46                   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 20:13                     ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 21:16                       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 21:51                         ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22  0:02                           ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 15:23                             ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 15:54                               ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 16:03                                 ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 17:04                                   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 17:25                                     ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 17:56                                       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 17:38                                     ` Bjørn Mork
2002-05-22 18:04                                       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 17:52     ` Matt Armstrong
2002-05-21 18:48       ` Stainless Steel Rat

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