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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Jeff,

We never considered adding this header field until your raised the point.
There seem to be some controversy though :
http://www.greatcircle.com/list-managers/mhonarc/list-managers.199712/msg00081.html

What do your users use the Sender: header field ?
Could they use either List-Id or X-Loop instead ?

Jeff Abbott wrote:
> Something that one of our users noticed in our migration away from 
> Majordomo to Sympa is that Sympa doesn't appear to set a Sender header 
> for messages going to the list.  Majordomo sends messages with a 
> Sender header set to LISTNAME-owner@site (e.g. address@concealed, for 
> a list named foo at our Majordomo site), which is also the envelope 
> sender.  Does Sympa do this and I've simply overlooked something or 
> haven't properly set something somewhere?  I believe that if it 
> doesn't do it already this functionality should be added because, 
> according to RFC 2822:
>
>    The "Sender:" field specifies the
>    mailbox of the agent responsible for the actual transmission of the
>    message.  For example, if a secretary were to send a message for
>    another person, the mailbox of the secretary would appear in the
>    "Sender:" field and the mailbox of the actual author would appear in
>    the "From:" field.  If the originator of the message can be indicated
>    by a single mailbox and the author and transmitter are identical, the
>    "Sender:" field SHOULD NOT be used.  Otherwise, both fields SHOULD
>    appear.
>
> I view Sympa as the "secretary" in this case, sending out the message 
> on behalf of the user who sent it to the list.  I'd be willing to try 
> to throw something together to add a Sender header (which would be 
> identical to the envelope sender) if there were any interest in this 
> feature.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff