From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29169 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Authentication warning on sender ... yuck Date: 10 Feb 2000 12:12:28 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <9t9ln4t31yl.fsf@mraz.iskon.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165886 1245 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:04:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:04:46 +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 C1475D051E for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:14:54 -0500 (EST) 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 OAB23806; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:13:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:12:48 -0600 (CST) 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 OAA02620 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:12:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 280D0D051E for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:12:33 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 14872 invoked by uid 50); 10 Feb 2000 20:12:28 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "10 Feb 2000 16:02:13 +0100" Original-Lines: 18 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:29169 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29169 Kai Großjohann writes: > Hrvoje Niksic 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)