From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [news.software.readers] GNKSA: Gnus 5.0.15
Date: 28 Mar 1996 05:59:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8sloklzubs.fsf_-_@eistla.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Russ Allbery's message of Wed, 27 Mar 1996 15:56:57 -0800 (PST)
Russ Allbery <eagle@cyclone.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> A request: Please do not require that the From: line is verifiably the
> user's mail address.
No, that's impossible. What Gnus does require now is that the From
line is valid syntactically.
From: (whohee-
is illegal, as is
From: larsi@.ifi.uio.no
And so on.
Gnus will not complain on
From: god@heaven.org
but it will (silently) add a Sender header that contains what Gnus
believes to be a more correct address.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-03-28 4:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-27 5:11 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-27 6:13 ` Steven L. Baur
1996-03-27 6:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-27 7:18 ` d. hall
1996-03-28 4:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-27 23:56 ` Russ Allbery
1996-03-28 4:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1996-03-28 6:33 ` Russ Allbery
1996-03-28 6:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-28 8:48 ` Gareth Rees
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