Re: [boost] Mangled "From" field in mailing list posts

Subject: Re: [boost] Mangled "From" field in mailing list posts
From: Stefan Seefeld (stefan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-11 14:07:11

On 11.06.2017 10:00, Rene Rivera via Boost wrote:
>
>> The "From:" field could contain the full address of the original poster,
>> not just his name. That's how things were before the change, IIUC.
>> But, AFAIU, that had to change because some mail servers would refuse to
>> serve mail whose "From:" address differed from the "sender" field (which
>> is the list address in our case). Am I describing this correctly ? I
>> wonder how others handle this situation (in particular, how mailman and
>> similar tools deal with this themselves), given how frequent a use-case
>> this is...
>>
> They deal with it by not  setting "Sender:" at all.

Then why wouldn't that work for us ?

    Stefan

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