From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>, ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Mail without `From:' lines
Date: 06 May 1996 10:44:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vaf68aary0t.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Sudish Joseph"'s message of 03 May 1996 18:58:25 -0400
>>>>> Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
>>>>> writes:
Kai> WIBNI Gnus were to use the information from X-From-Line in lieu of the
Kai> missing `From ' line?
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
Lars> This is on the Red Gnus todo list. Or rather, the mail backends will
Lars> fudge a missing From: header from the "From " separator.
>>>>> On 03 May 1996 18:58:25 -0400, "Sudish Joseph"
>>>>> <sudish@VNET.IBM.COM> said:
Sudish> This isn't a good idea, as you're effectively setting the
Sudish> reply address for the message to the envelope sender--and
Sudish> that's only allowed for bounces, I think [...]
I'm talking about the cases where you have neither of `From:',
`Sender:' and `Reply-To:', you only have the `From ' line to go on.
Then surely using the address given in the `From ' line can't be worse
than using `' (the empty string) as reply address?
kai
--
Gleep!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-05-06 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-03 11:45 Kai Grossjohann
1996-05-03 18:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-05-03 22:58 ` Sudish Joseph
1996-05-06 8:44 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
1996-05-06 11:12 ` Per Persson
1996-05-06 12:00 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-06 12:12 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-06 15:59 ` Per Persson
1996-05-06 16:01 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-06 17:30 ` Per Persson
1996-05-06 17:45 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-06 20:12 ` Per Persson
1996-05-07 5:38 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-06 17:46 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1996-05-06 16:42 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1996-05-03 23:11 ` Sudish Joseph
1996-05-04 0:39 ` Sudish Joseph
1996-05-04 1:37 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-05 0:10 ` Sudish Joseph
1996-05-05 7:59 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-06 14:53 ` Sudish Joseph
1996-05-06 15:18 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-06 17:33 ` Sudish Joseph
1996-05-06 17:53 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-05 12:33 ` Per Abrahamsen
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