From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43873 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Green Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: minor patch against message.el Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:21:46 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016065533 13444 127.0.0.1 (14 Mar 2002 00:25:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16lJ3l-0003Uk-00 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 01:25:33 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16lJ0x-0003Jx-00; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:22:39 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:22:44 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA14537 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:22:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 24900 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2002 00:22:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24895 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2002 00:22:17 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.sourcefire.com (151.196.107.163) by gnus.org with SMTP; 14 Mar 2002 00:22:17 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([216.152.102.126]) by mail.sourcefire.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2DNRDT82346 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:27:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cmg@sourcefire.com) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:40:12 -0500") Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.5 (beets, powerpc-apple-darwin5.3) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43873 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43873 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> fn@hungry.org (Faried Nawaz) writes: >>> I'd like to set my sender header to whatever my from header is. >>> I use qmail, so I needed this patch (against Oort 0.04): >> >> Committed, thanks. > > I guess my response to Faried accidentally went off-list. This patch > is actually not necessary for the desired functionality. (If there is > a Return-Path field, qmail-inject will set the envelope sender > according to it and delete it. Return-Path can be set via posting > styles, etc.) Maybe this patch is useful for somebody else anyway, > though. > The only time I have found that setting the Sender to be necessary is when sending commands to a listserv subscription routine. No matter what the From: said, it would always reply to the Sender: and use that address for taking action on. It didn't make any sense to me and I argued about it at work a bit but the easiest way was to just set my Sender: manually -- Chris Green A good pun is its own reword.