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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.



      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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