Re: Question about Sender

On Saturday, Oct 13th 2007 at 22:23 -0000, quoth John L:

=>> > There's no reason that the two have to be the same, and one can
=>> > make a reasonable case that the correct thing to put in the Sender:
=>> > header from the point of view of RFC compliance is the list
=>> > address.
=>
=>> Other people have argued for using the list owner's address, or for
=>> using Resent-Sender for that purpose instead. RFC 2822 seems
=>> ambiguous. Is there a more recent document that clarifies this
=>> issue?
=>
=>There's Pete Resnick's draft-resnick-2822upd-03.txt but that's just a
=>draft, not yet approved as standards track.  Its wording is currently
=>unchanged from RFC 2822:
=>
=>   The "Sender:" field specifies the mailbox of the agent responsible
=>   for the actual transmission of the message.  For example, if a
=>   secretary were to send a message for another person, the mailbox of
=>   the secretary would appear in the "Sender:" field and the mailbox of
=>   the actual author would appear in the "From:" field.  If the
=>   originator of the message can be indicated by a single mailbox and
=>   the author and transmitter are identical, the "Sender:" field
=>   SHOULD NOT be used.  Otherwise, both fields SHOULD appear.
=>
=>The problem is that different MUAs do different things with the
=>Sender: field, ranging from the sensible to the ridiculous.  My
=>inclination is to let list owners do whatever they want, since there's
=>little basis to argue that whatever they do is wrong.
=>
=>Regards,
=>John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
=>Dummies",
=>Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
=>"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
=>

I just added the patch to my setup. I'm hopeful that this won't bork 
anything else up, but assuming it's ok, can we just set this up as a 
configurable parameter for those who like getting tons of misdirected mail 
to $OWNER ?

Also, I just have to ask this: Are all of the mailers that do stoopid 
stuff with Sender all come from uSoft?

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