Re: Sender header?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Barry Fishman <barry_fishman@acm.org> writes:

> So what would be my properly configured sender address?  How could I
> fix my configuration to have one?  Please be specific.
> 
> My gut feeling is that it is up to the smtp server on mailhost.att.net
> to provide it.  In this case I need to prevent gnus from creating one
> even though my "From:"  address does not match my login@fqdn address.
> Presently I am just doing a:
> 
>         ;; Fix message send address (I don't have a real hostname
>         (defun message-make-sender ()
>           "Return own mail address as sender"
>           (message-make-address))


I got hollered at on comp.editors for having a made up rhs of message
id which is somewhat related to this discussion.

Describing another situation where it isn't really clear what I
should have for a From or sender address.

My situation isn't quite as complex as Barrys but is probably fairly
typical of home users in US.   I have a dsl connection on static ip.
Right now my router (not a machine with an OS running on it) has the
IP address assigned to me.  My computer has an internal class c 192
address as do the others on my home network.  All are capable of
sending mail, all are capable of recieving mail, but not at the static
ip address,  But at my IP's mail machine address.

The router is NAT enabled and knows who sent what.

>From what I'm seeing on this thread, the router which has my static IP
address is what the sender would be derived from, however it cannot
recieve mail for that address, only for either my IP domain or newsguy  

To complicate things a little further.  I don't actually use my IPs
address but have a newsguy account I do most of my mail with.  That
from address uses newguy.com domain but is not my machine but the
address of a machine several hundred miles from me.

I've been thoroughly confused about these matters for quite some time.

I'd be interested to hear Rats or others views of what I should be doing
regarding From and sender.  (Message-ID would be a bonus).

Currently I've told gnus to stick my IP smtp server address in
Message-ID.  And disabled sender generation.

(defun message-make-fqdn ()
  "My  hacked message-id."
  "ptw.com")