From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28995 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Taso N. Devetzis" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: overriding the sender header Date: 29 Jan 2000 18:27:55 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165742 32689 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:02:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58632D051E for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 18:29:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB00069; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:28:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:28:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23456 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:28:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from raoul.snet.net (raoul.snet.net [204.60.220.24]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511B2D051E for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 18:28:01 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from devetzis@localhost) by raoul.snet.net (8.10.0.Beta10/8.10.0.Beta10/devetzis-1.3) id e0TNRtN07606; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 18:27:55 -0500 (EST) Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "30 Jan 2000 00:03:00 +0100" Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28995 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28995 from the (v8) man page: -fname Sets the name of the ``from'' person (i.e., the envelope sender of the mail). -f should only be used by ``trusted'' users (normally root, daemon, and net- work) or if the person you are trying to become is the same as the person you are. Otherwise, an X- Authentication-Warning header will be added to the mes- sage. /taso Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Steinar Bang writes: >=20 > > Platform: Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, SuSE linux 6.3, Xemacs 20.4, G= nus 5.8.3 > >=20 > > Is the envelope header set from the sender: field? Or is it set by > > sendmail?=20 >=20 > The default value of message-sendmail-f-is-evil means that Gnus uses > the -f option for sendmail to set something. It may be the envelope > sender; I'm not sure. >=20 > kai > --=20 > A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Rad= io)