From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 16: 4:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968FE37B718 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:04:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@siteplus.com) Received: from siteplus.com (1Cust61.tnt2.jackson.ms.da.uu.net [63.10.37.61]) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA05356; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:04:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3AAEB598.6B32721@siteplus.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:04:40 -0500 From: Jim Weeks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: trini0 , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape mail again References: <15022.33450.352537.801500@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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