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From: Doug Bagley <doug@deja.com>
Subject: Re: Authentication warning on sender ... yuck
Date: 10 Feb 2000 09:16:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yg9wvodw0jb.fsf@yow.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "10 Feb 2000 16:02:13 +0100"

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:
> 
> > Argh, but *why* is it using the `-f' switch?  I don't really want to
> > turn it off before I understand why it's there in the first place.
> 
> Hm.  Why would Gnus want to set the envelope from?  Maybe it is
> because some (broken) programs use the envelope from for replies, and
> if you set the mail address explicitly, the envelope from is likely to
> be wrong.  But only Lars can know for sure...

Personally, I like the fact that Gnus can set the envelope from.  I
guess since message-sendmail-f-is-evil exists, you can have it either
way.

Cheers,
Doug



  reply	other threads:[~2000-02-10 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-10  1:17 Harry Putnam
2000-02-10  3:42 ` Doug Bagley
2000-02-10  8:08 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-02-10  8:18   ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-02-10 15:02     ` Kai Großjohann
2000-02-10 15:16       ` Doug Bagley [this message]
2000-02-10 15:27         ` Karl Kleinpaste
2000-02-10 16:17           ` David S. Goldberg
2000-02-10 17:14             ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-02-11  8:21           ` Amos Gouaux
2000-02-11 13:06         ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-02-11 16:39           ` Amos Gouaux
2000-02-10 20:12       ` Russ Allbery

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