Re: Mailing lists as 2822-Sender (was: Responsibility vs. Validity)

Tony Finch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.dkim,gmane.ietf.rfc822,gmane.ietf.smtp
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> Well, let's get back to first princples.  RFC 2822 3.6.2:
>
>      "The "Sender:" field specifies the
>    mailbox of the agent responsible for the actual transmission of the
>    message."

Popular MTA implementations (Sendmail, Postfix) do not implement the
Sender: header the way 822 and 2822 suggest, so even before you consider
mailing list managers you need to be very careful about RFC lawyering.

Microsoft MUAs present message headers in a way that works best if normal
messages do not have a Sender: field and mailing list messages do have one.

Tony.
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