Re: Who sets Sender:?

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> wrote:
> * prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)  on Wed, 22 May 2002
> | >> In what cases should the MUA guess that Sender is needed?
...
> The MUA should attempt to deterine if a Sender header is needed for
> every message sent.

You're answering this question: "in what cases should the MUA guess
whether Sender is needed?"  That isn't the question I asked.

> | You didn't answer these questions, nor many others from previous
> | messages.
>
> Because the answers are obvious to anyone who bothers to think about them
> for more than half a second.

It isn't obvious to me what *your* answers are, or I wouldn't have
asked them.

> Failure to generate a Sender header when one is required results in
> a technically incorrect message.

Will that incorrectness ever cause problems?  A wrong guess in the
other direction can cause problems.  "Correct" isn't always the best
thing to be.

> When is a Sender header required?  When RFC 2822 says it is.
...
> When should Gnus not create a Sender header?  When one already
> exists or RFC 2822 says no.

Punting to RFC 2822 is pointless when the interpretation of RFC 2822
is itself in question.


paul