Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!sprite!montnaro From: montnaro@sprite.steinmetz (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.mail.headers,comp.unix.wizards Subject: GNU Emacs vs. sendmail - battle of the titans Message-ID: <8013@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 15:48:30 EST Article-I.D.: steinmet.8013 Posted: Mon Nov 30 15:48:30 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 06:13:50 EST Sender: root@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP Reply-To: montanaro@ge-crd.arpa (Skip Montanaro) Distribution: na Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 24 Keywords: GNU Emacs, sendmail Summary: From vs. From:, which is better? Xref: mnetor comp.emacs:2463 comp.mail.headers:224 comp.unix.wizards:5700 Internet mail to our local network of Suns goes through a VMS VAX which adds a little something extra to return addresses. For instance, zip@zap.domain is transformed into zip%zap.domain.tcpip@csbvax.steinmetz. Undoing this in the sendmail.cf file is pretty easy, but sendmail only generates a From field in the correct format, it doesn't rewrite the From: field. On the other hand, GNU Emacs discards the From field (in rmail-nuke-pinhead-header, I believe), preferring to display the From: field, which defeats my attempts at making mail headers more readable (and useful to the mail software running on our Suns). I can patch the rmail.el code to pay attention to From, however, the business of which field (From or From:) is better, preferable, or more authoritative has always been somewhat perplexing to me, and I'd like to get it straight before butchering things. What's the straight dope? Can I make sendmail rewrite the From: field? Can somebody from the Free Software Foundation explain rmail's behavior? I imagine this is either old hat or uninteresting to most readers of these groups, so reply directly to me and I will summarize if there is enough interest. Thanks, Skip (montanaro@ge-crd.arpa or uunet!steinmetz!sprite!montanaro)