Sender header (was: Outstanding stuff?)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> Here's one: make it easy to set the sender when doing resend.
>
> Right now resend of a message from my netbook makes the sender be
> sb@localhost6.localdomain6, and my own mail relay refuses to accept a
> message from this, because it is an unroutable address.
>
> I'm using smtpmail-send-it for outgoing mail.

Hm.  I didn't think Message inserted Sender at all, but I now see that
it does...

If the From header isn't vaguely like what the Sender header would have
been, Message inserts a Sender header.  Which explains why you're seeing
this when resending, since then the From header definitely doesn't match
what the Sender would have been.

But is there any reason to insert a Sender header at all?  This code is
from the mid-nineties, and I don't remember anything about it.  Anybody?

As a workaround, you can

(setq message-syntax-checks '((sender . disabled)))

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