From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30223 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: sendmail -f: evil or not? Date: 22 Apr 2000 17:19:45 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <9t9ogc4j7rm.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166786 7325 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:19:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6756D051E for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:21:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAB25328; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:20:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:19:38 -0500 (CDT) 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 TAA24943 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:19:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BC63D051E for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:19:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 28614 invoked by uid 50); 23 Apr 2000 00:19:45 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "22 Apr 2000 20:18:55 +0200" Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30223 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30223 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber) writes: >> 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'. > It's what Pine does, so it must be right. :-) > I can flip the default if that would help. However you go with this, I'd really prefer to have Gnus use -f if a specific user-mail-address is set. I'd rather have my envelope sender set to the address that matches my current "personality"; I really like that feature. So as long as it's easy for me to turn that on.... -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)