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Flatman <flatman@swing.be> writes:
> when sending mail via gnus , there is a 'X-From-Line' that is added
> to the mail.

X-From-Line is an artifact of mail being _received_, not sent.  It is
Gnus' way of changing the UNIX (sendmail, procmail) "From a@b.c <date>"
header (which lacks a colon, notably) into an RFC-looking format.

There is no X-From-Line in _sent_ mail.