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Subject: Re: From: field on messages
From: hot2trot @ bigfoot . com (Burt Juda)
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 14:47:06 -0400
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <x7hg0sb7k4.fsf@gkar.prescienttech.com>
References: <Dave Sill's message of "Wed, 8 Jul 98 12:11:42 EST"><A03CD00C69B1D01195AB00A024ECEB16A27208@kaori.INTERNAL><x77m1octj0.fsf@gkar.prescienttech.com><19980708161142.17677.qmail@sws5.ctd.ornl.gov>

At 01:01 PM 7/8/98 -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:

>> To clarify: RFC 822 says From can only be set by the sender of the
>> message,

>To clarify, RFC 822 says From can only be set by the *ORIGINATOR* of the
>message; the sender may be a completely different agent.  The originator of
>a message is the person or agent responsible for its creation.  Majordomo
>does not create messages sent to the lists it manages; it is not the
>originator in such cases, it is only a sender, and thus not allowed to
>modify originator headers such as From.

Sorry to disagree ... the resend process creates a NEW message, using the
message sent to it as fodder/input to the process.  It is up to the "owner"
and Admin how and what headers are created or included.


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