From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36378 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sender header? Date: 24 May 2001 21:38:17 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Message-ID: References: <01May23.141128edt.115245@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.115917edt.115250@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.143521edt.115214@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.153439edt.115213@gateway.intersys.com> <01May24.163305edt.115259@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171973 8281 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:46:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 1766 invoked by alias); 25 May 2001 01:38:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1761 invoked from network); 25 May 2001 01:38:18 -0000 Original-Received: from h0060978d8c91.ne.mediaone.net (HELO peorth.gweep.net) (ratinox@24.147.75.115) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 May 2001 01:38:18 -0000 Original-Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by peorth.gweep.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01784; Thu, 24 May 2001 21:38:17 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Original-Lines: 31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36378 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36378 * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) on Thu, 24 May 2001 | If the Sender field contains the FQDN of the host, and the machine is | turned off, you're screwed. *sigh* Not if your MX records are set up correctly. | So maybe it is better to give a domain part in the address which | identifies a host which is sure to be on? Maybe this is the case in my | situation? How can you know? How can Gnus know? | Why do you want to forbid me from putting there an address which I | know to work better than user@FQDN? Because right now, for example, ratinox@newsguy.com could be who I am when I write this message, but it is not who I am when I send it. It would be incorrect for me to put ratinox@newsguy.com in the Sender header no matter how much "better" (read convenient) it is. | Reall? What is the FQDN needed for? The address should specify a | mailbox, and knowing about host names is not necessary for specifying | mailboxes. The domain part of an RFC 2822 mailbox must be a fully qualified domain name. If you are not doing RFC 2822 mail then you can do whatever you want, but don't expect it to work correctly anywhere else. -- Rat \ If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ away immediately. Seek shelter and cover PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ head.