- From: Gregory J. Woodhouse <gjw@wnetc.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 07:38:17 -0800 (PST)
- To: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- cc: "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
The list configuration looks fine to me. Mailing lists should never user the posting address as an envelope sender because of the danger of non-delivery notices and the like being routed to the whole list. It is correct to use a single recipient address like listname-owner for the RFC 822 Sender. The difference between From and Sender is that From is intended to be the oritinator of the message (e.g., the person posting to the list) and Sender is the person or agent that actually sends the message (in this case, the list server). In your case, your mail program is probably picking up the Sender and using it. The mail program I use at work does the same thing and it is irritating. Note: The envelope sender is the address that appears in Mail From:<whoever> in the SMTP dialog, and normally shouldn't appear in the message header. You sometimes see it in custom headers like X-Envelope-To or the deprecated(?) Return-Path. The envelope sender and the RFC 822 sender are entirely different creatures. --- gjw@wnetc.com / http://www.wnetc.com/home.html If you're going to reinvent the wheel, at least try to come to come up with a better one.
Received on Friday, 7 February 1997 10:42:36 UTC