From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: message-make-sender - what's the purpose? Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:19:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvszu8e6.fsf@gnus.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450973994 18986 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2015 16:19:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:19:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sam Steingold Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 24 17:19:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aC8cC-0007O3-LA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:19:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60748 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aC8cC-00032f-0i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 11:19:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aC8c8-00030d-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 11:19:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aC8c5-0008WB-2t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 11:19:40 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:39053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aC8c4-0008W3-Rm; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 11:19:36 -0500 Original-Received: from 2.150.58.24.tmi.telenormobil.no ([2.150.58.24] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aC8bi-0000qX-Fg; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:19:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Sam Steingold's message of "Thu, 14 May 2015 14:54:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1aC8bi-0000qX-Fg MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1451578754.79481@iYOfuRsxfunL3ZZZc9RUGA X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196764 Archived-At: Sam Steingold writes: > For me (message-make-sender) returns "sds@sds-MacBook-Pro.local". > When can this value be ever useful? It's not very useful, but it's supposed to be a value that the user "can't" change, so that when posting on Usenet News, we can generate a "more secure" Sender header to complement the user-driven From header. For instance when doing Cancel-Lock stuff. But I assume that your (system-name) evaluates to "sds@sds-MacBook-Pro.local", which doesn't look very pretty, so you have a misconfigured OS. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no