From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
Subject: Re: sendmail -f: evil or not?
Date: 22 Apr 2000 15:34:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y9l66ta9s41.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "21 Apr 2000 21:55:44 +0200"
>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
Lars> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:
>> So what's supposed to happen here? Why does Gnus use `-f' by default,
>> and why doesn't my sendmail like it?
Lars> Gnus uses -f for hysterical raisins -- some installations require it,
Lars> and almost none choke on it, although a bunch will throw warnings at
Lars> you.
I don't get it: -f means Gnus assumes the sendmail installation is
buggy. However, in most setups (which use a mail domain different
from the local hostname), Gnus passes the *wrong* argument to sendmail
-f in absence of further configuration of `user-mail-address'.
-f should be off by default.
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-22 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-06 17:31 Hrvoje Niksic
2000-04-21 19:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-22 13:34 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] [this message]
2000-04-22 18:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-23 0:19 ` Russ Allbery
2000-04-23 9:58 ` Florian Weimer
2000-04-23 17:38 ` Rupa Schomaker
2000-04-23 20:13 ` Florian Weimer
2000-04-24 0:47 ` Russ Allbery
2000-04-23 7:51 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-04-23 7:57 ` Russ Allbery
2000-04-25 0:58 ` Stephen Zander
2000-04-24 20:50 ` Amos Gouaux
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