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sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:

> I don't get it: -f means Gnus assumes the sendmail installation is
> buggy.  However, in most setups (which use a mail domain different
> from the local hostname), Gnus passes the *wrong* argument to sendmail
> -f in absence of further configuration of `user-mail-address'.

It's what Pine does, so it must be right.  :-)

I can flip the default if that would help.

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