Hello

if you have used a mail.ru email for google groups, when you posted message to 
group, it will replace From header with the list address.


On Sat, Nov 23, 2019, at 6:43 PM, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote:
> Dnia 23.11.2019 o godz. 17:19:53 Wesley Peng pisze:
> > Google groups replace the from: with their group address.
> 
> I have never seen it and I'm subscribed to many Google-based mailing lists.
> They replace the envelope from address (like almost every mailing list
> server does), but keep the original From: header.
> 
> Replacing the From: header would be a very bad idea, as - at it was already
> written - this header indicates the author of the message, and the author is
> a particular sender writing to the list, and not the list itself.
> 
> Would you really like to see in your mail client a whole thread of messages
> from a mailing list, every each of them having "From:" address as the list's
> address? What would you do if you need to quickly find a message written by
> a particular person (for example, you) in this conversation?
> -- 
> Regards,
>  Jaroslaw Rafa
>  r...@rafa.eu.org
> --
> "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there
> was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub."
> 

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