Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:04:40 -0500 From: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: trini0 <trini0@optonline.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape mail again Message-ID: <3AAEB598.6B32721@siteplus.com> References: <15022.33450.352537.801500@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > Actually, it could be considered a slight security feature. From: is > for the author(s). Sender is used when the person sending the message > is different than the From header. Given the amount of flack Netscape > took for making it trivial to forge email, that they now notice the > sender and from mailbox being different and add a sender can be > > considered DTRT. > All of this would fine and good if the Sender: field was actually correct. The sender field should be "my_earthlink_login@earthlink.net" not "my_machine_login@earthlink.net". If the sender field was correct there wouldn't be a problem since "my_earthlink_login@earthlink.net" is a valid email address. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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