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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: message-make-sender - what's the purpose?
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:19:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvszu8e6.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2siazhtw5.fsf@gnu.org> (Sam Steingold's message of "Thu, 14 May 2015 14:54:34 -0400")

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> 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



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-24 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-14 18:54 message-make-sender - what's the purpose? Sam Steingold
2015-12-24 16:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-01-04 19:37   ` Sam Steingold
2015-12-24 16:44 ` Yuri Khan

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