*[André Dahlqvist on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:55:05PM +0200]:
> > my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre' Dahlqvist)
> > set envelope_from
> But in what cases should one have to use that? I mean what I'm using
> now seams to work almost all the time too.
You'd set the envelope sender when you were connected via a dialup ip / a
workstation with a private ip (192.168.1/24 etc) - a box with a hostname that
wouldn't resolve. If you send mails as [EMAIL PROTECTED], most
mailservers would bounce you with a 550 Sender Domain Must Resolve error.
What you were doing is more like mail from: <foo> - some servers tolerate that
and append their own domain name to it - others bounce the mail.
> Btw, how come some people prefer to write the name inside parenthesis
> like that, and some prefer to have the address inside < > and the name
> before it?
the [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Qux Quux) style is depreciated these days - [perhaps a polite
way of saying it's outdated and old fashioned <g>)
/me sees this on usenet most of the time - or in mail, when generated by mailer
+ newsreaders like forte agent on windows.
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