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>>>>> "SG" == Stephen Graham <graham@ee.washington.edu> writes:
SG> In this case, the originator of the message is MajorDomo.
So, what you are telling me is that I did not originate this message,
Majordomo@greatcircle.com did. That is ludicrous. The originator is
the agent which composes the message. The sender is the agent which
submits the message to the transfer agent. Unless you can point me to
something which superceeds this, this is what RFC-822 says on the
subject.
In the context of Majordomo and and other program-managed mailing lists,
the list manager is the sender. The only time the manager program is
the originator as well as the sender is when it generates administrivia.
[...]
SG> You may be the author of the message, but you didn't originate the
SG> message.
The two are effectively synonymous, although "composer of the message"
is a more generally correct term than "author". The originator is the
agent which composes the message, and it is the originator's mailbox
which resides in the From header; the sender is the agent which passes
it off to the transfer agent for delivery. When I send mail directly to
you I am both the originator and the sender; in this case no Sender
header should be generated becasuse sender and originator are the same
mailbox. When I send mail to majordomo-users@greatcircle.com, I am
still the originator of the message. Initially I am the sender, so no
Sender header should be generated. Then Majordomo gets its hands on it
and resubmits it to the local MTA. I am still the originator, and my
mailbox is in the From header, but Majordomo is now the sender, and a
Majordomo address is placed in the Sender header.
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