Re: Default mail address

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

Justin> Ben Gertzfield <wilwonka@imsa.edu> writes:
>> *wavewave* Ack, I lost my .gnus, and I've fallen prey to the old
>> problem where my "Sender" header guesses that my hostname is the
>> same as the computer I'm at, instead of what I want it to be.

Justin> You shouldn't care what your Sender: looks like.  It is From:
Justin> that is important, and yours looks fine.

Justin> There is no good reason to change the Sender: header.

I would like to disagree.

I have sendmail set up with genericstable to map my address to
ats@acm.org.  It only works right now with simple usernames, not ones
with hostnames.  So, I have user-mail-address set to ats@acm.org.
Now, the only difference between mail sent by Gnus and /bin/mail is
the existence of the Sender: line mentioning hubert.wustl.edu.

With /bin/mail, I can mail to lists
(eg. redhat-list-request@redhat.com) and it responds to ats@acm.org.
Do the same thing with Gnus, and Smartlist replies to
ats@hubert.wustl.edu.

This gives me a good reason to change the Sender header.

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