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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



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