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
next prev parent 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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