From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sent messages contain 'From nobody' header Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:14:13 +0200 Message-ID: <861q9hsrbe.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sf1yjj9h.fsf@paira.in> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3012"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 12 15:15:08 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rZX5P-0000VA-Mj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:15:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rZX4b-0002cF-1o; Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:14:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rZX4Z-0002bl-62 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:14:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rZX4Y-0002xr-OB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:14:14 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=m6/pWGf6DXNzHgEobZjx7uQxKDxV0dzz/2MJMv5u5JM=; b=DmhaP1ur/n1O 6J0C3LNeYcbq98eOL8yFLhT39Cxvt2QEQOZ/mWn2GR4Yq/bYC48rChbZMD+04BdsNclD8hYFh0jRE gonB3nTtlH6S4cPwAHPO1nCUwWtKpDKc7H8U1N89HYnNKj4AluWEICiKIANvQYOJJGPyxrIdcaJq2 JkZ30yQD0t/erqRea57SLiddnOxNEvD9Km6ohbpo/IhT5uV4NaCd6is5MWTz9IVqJ0ZzsqJCo33P2 USTQXQAYXXMaYw0iwcjC67hmPdwqLMuF3IuNakcXl3r+XW2epzlRHW+gVj1uJCO0de3Of1C9TJ4K4 lOv1zgEE/RBBQ9B3QxhFPg==; In-Reply-To: <87sf1yjj9h.fsf@paira.in> (message from Abhiseck Paira on Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:44:31 +0530) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145920 Archived-At: > From: Abhiseck Paira > 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.