[Mailman-Users] Posting-Filter is broken in 1.1 !?

Nick Moffitt nick at zork.net
Mon Jan 3 16:06:34 CET 2000


Quoting Paul Tomblin:
> > Maybe Mailman is doing the right thing when determine the header
> > sender.  
> 
> Careful reading of the RFCs indicates to me that Sender is *not*
> intended for use by automated programs, they do not have to be
> legitimate email addresses, and in fact would be perfectly RFC
> compliant if they were of the form: Sender:
> Joes_Secretary at joes_office
> 
> Thus no program should be using them for anything.

	Especially not using them to trump other well-established
headers like From: .

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