From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10199 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sudish Joseph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Checking `Reply-To' Date: 11 Mar 1997 20:05:44 -0500 Sender: sj@atreides.eng.mindspring.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150109 23026 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:41:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA03761 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:23:41 -0800 Original-Received: from atreides.eng.mindspring.net (atreides.eng.mindspring.net [207.69.183.11]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 02:06:36 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 31772 invoked by uid 52477); 12 Mar 1997 01:06:04 -0000 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 11 Mar 1997 17:39:49 -0500 Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.25/XEmacs 20.1 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10199 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10199 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > If the mailbox specified in the From header does not point back to the > originating host or originating site's mailhub, then the address is not > canonical as far as RFC-822 is concerned. RFC 822 has no such restrictions. It's only suggestions are wrt. default entries, entries generated by *machines* when the user has /no particular preference/. In this latter case, it says From: should contain what Sender: would otherwise. The contents of From: are entirely up to the user. There is no concept of "canonical" identity in 822. 822bis includes a "SHOULD NOT" regarding the gratuitous use of Reply-To:. It also snips the "typical uses" statements that are interpreted by some as law in the description of Reply-To. More interestingly, 822bis promotes the usage of References: for threading. Yay. -Sudish