Subject: use-sender-not-x-sender feature

From: Mark Montague <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:26:05 -0500 (EST)

I'm using Pine 4.31.  Recently, a user replied to one of my messages
using the address from the X-X-Sender header line (apparently they
are using Eudora which automatically selected this address for them).
The only documentation I can find on X-X-Sender with regards to Pine is:

>                        FEATURE: use-sender-not-X-Sender
>
> Normally Pine adds a header line labeled X-X-Sender, if the sender is
> different from the From: line. The standard specifies that this header
> line should be labeled Sender, not X-X-Sender. Setting this feature
> causes Sender to be used instead of X-X-Sender.

Questions:

  - Why is X-X-Sender added?  What's it's purpose?  (I.e., why not
    just let the MTA add X-Sender instead?)

  - What are the ramifications of turning on the use-sender-not-x-sender
    feature?  How will this affect people responding to messages?

Thanks in advance for any help.

                Mark Montague
                LS&A Information Technology
                The University of Michigan
                [email-masked]

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From: "Keith Wyatt - N6JPA" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:18:44 -0800

X-Sender or X-X-Sender doesn't mean anything. Sender is often used
for moderation in newsgroups and some mail list. Frankly I think Pine 
should simply drop the Sender or X-Sender and if you want it you can 
add it with a custom header. X-whatever: blah blah  is used as a 
comment in mail and news headers.

On 18 Jan 2001, at 8:26, Mark Montague wrote:

> using the address from the X-X-Sender header line (apparently they are
> using Eudora which automatically selected this address for them). The
> only documentation I can find on X-X-Sender with regards to Pine is:
> 
> > Normally Pine adds a header line labeled X-X-Sender, if the sender
> > is different from the From: line. The standard specifies that this
> > header line should be labeled Sender, not X-X-Sender. Setting this
> > feature causes Sender to be used instead of X-X-Sender.
> 
> Questions:
> 

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Best Regards,

Keith
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