From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sent messages contain 'From nobody' header
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:14:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861q9hsrbe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sf1yjj9h.fsf@paira.in> (message from Abhiseck Paira on Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:44:31 +0530)
> From: Abhiseck Paira <abhiseck@paira.in>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:44:31 +0530
>
> > On inspecting my sent messages -- either using rmail, or just
> > viewing
> > the file as plain text -- I notice that each is prepended with a
> > header
> > that looks like the following:
>
> > From nobody Thu Feb 8 08:23:10 2024
>
> This looks like part of the Mbox format specification. Email
> readers use this "From " line to determine the start of a new
> message. See the Wikipedia article[1] for details.
The "From " part is the mbox format spec, but the "nobody" part isn't.
I use sendmail.el, not message.el, and it puts my address after
"From", not "nobody". I guess message.el doesn't bother, or maybe
this is somehow triggered by the OP's email setup.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-12 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-09 4:16 Sent messages contain 'From nobody' header Ben Hancock
2024-02-12 6:14 ` Abhiseck Paira
2024-02-12 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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