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From: Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu>
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Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> >>>>> "Justin" == Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu> writes:
> 
> Justin> There is no good reason to change the Sender: header.
> 
> I would like to disagree.
> 
> I have sendmail set up with genericstable to map my address to
> ats@acm.org.  It only works right now with simple usernames, not ones
> with hostnames.  So, I have user-mail-address set to ats@acm.org.
> Now, the only difference between mail sent by Gnus and /bin/mail is
> the existence of the Sender: line mentioning hubert.wustl.edu.
> 
> With /bin/mail, I can mail to lists
> (eg. redhat-list-request@redhat.com) and it responds to ats@acm.org.
> Do the same thing with Gnus, and Smartlist replies to
> ats@hubert.wustl.edu.

Software that replies to the Sender: and ignores the From: header is
broken and should not be catered to.

-Justin