Re: (gnus-inews-domain-name); insertion of Sender:

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> As I read it: If the user provide a from it can't verify, the software
> should provide as good a sender it can without using (unverifiable)
> input from the user.

Indeed.  The reason Gnus sometimes get the Sender header wrong is that
`(system-name)' on some machines (notably Suns) does not return a
fully qualified name -- which means that Gnus has to do some guessing.
And it guesses based on the variables it has available.

Perhaps Gnus shouldn't do that, though.  I've now changed the Sender
to *always* use `(system-name)', whether it looks ok or not.  That way
it's more difficult for the user to influence the header (which is
good), but it'll be "wrong" (i. e., not fully qualified) more often
(which is bad).

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