From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6166 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Persson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mail without `From:' lines Date: 06 May 1996 19:30:28 +0200 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Message-ID: <87wx2pu2tn.fsf@pfawww.pp.se> References: <877muqhx86.fsf@pfawww.pp.se> <8720kxvlkw.fsf@pfawww.pp.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146661 2774 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:44:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA18618 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 11:22:45 -0700 Original-Received: from pfawww.pp.se (pfawww.pp.se [193.44.91.7]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 19:29:34 +0200 Original-Received: (from pp@localhost) by pfawww.pp.se (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA14231; Mon, 6 May 1996 19:30:28 +0200 Original-To: Per Abrahamsen In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of 06 May 1996 18:01:15 +0200 Original-Lines: 38 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.81/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6166 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6166 Per Abrahamsen writes: >>>>> "PP" == Per Persson writes: PP> It's not up to the mailinglist to add a "From: " header. I think the mailing list should reject such submissions, but I suspect most mailing lists will add a `From: ' header based on the envelope if you actually try. These are the relevant headers from your mail; >>From ding-request@ifi.uio.no Mon May 6 19:13:59 1996 Sender: abraham@dina.kvl.dk From: Per Abrahamsen 1) the list adds an appropriate "From " header. 2) your MUA or your MTA adds a "Sender: " header, in perfect conditions this should be done by the MTA. 3) your MUA adds a "From: " header--if missing, the MTA might do it. An MUA should use option three first, then option two if three is missing which is shouldn't be. An MUA should NOT use the "From " header, just as it shouldn't use the "Return-Path: " header. The "From " header isn't added by the MUA or the MTA, it's actually added my the MDA. This isn't really relevant to this mailinglist, it should be fought over on comp.mail.headers. IMHO, GNUS should NOT use a header which is likly to return something you don't want to use, at least not without querying the user first. -- Bahnhof; http://www.bahnhof.se/ | a difference of (work) phone(voice/fax): +46 18 100899/103737 | opinion is possible PFAWWW; http://pfawww.pp.se/pp/ | ^. .^ anum meum (!work) phone(voice) : +46 18 247473 | ( @ ) aperies