From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Authentication warning on sender ... yuck
Date: 10 Feb 2000 12:12:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylu2jg24wj.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "10 Feb 2000 16:02:13 +0100"
Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> 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...
So that your envelope sender matches your From header in the presence of
posting profiles, allowing bounces to go to the right address if you sort
your mail on that basis. Or at least that's what I use it for; it's quite
nice.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-02-10 20:12 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
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 [this message]
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