Received: from localhost by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id XAA25306; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:13:22 -0400 Received: from wilma.cs.utk.edu by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id XAA25300; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:13:19 -0400 Received: from LOCALHOST by wilma.cs.utk.edu with SMTP (cf v2.11c-UTK) id XAA26747; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:13:18 -0400 Message-Id: <199510040313.XAA26747@wilma.cs.utk.edu> X-URI: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/ From: Keith Moore To: "Roger Fajman" cc: drums@CS.UTK.EDU, moore@CS.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: What's the Sender header for? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 1995 22:23:01 EDT." <199510040225.WAA20817@CS.UTK.EDU> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 23:13:12 -0400 Sender: moore@CS.UTK.EDU > (2) Some user agents allow the user to sent the From field to whatever > they want. This is useful when the address that one wishes people to > use is one that goes through a forwarder (e.g., fajman@nih.gov). The > utility of the Sender field in this context is that is can be used to > indicate where the message really came from, so as to discourage > forgery. MH does this. If you set the From field in your components file (or in the composed message), it puts your real email address in the Sender field. Keith