On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:10:53PM +0000, Kirsten Chevalier wrote:
> No, I don't think so. The program used to send email is configurable by the
> user. I don't know exactly which email clients do and don't allow email to be
> sent from arbitrary From: addresses, but not all of them do. Furthermore,
> allowing that is Considered Harmful. Sure, if you're using Unix you probably
> have sendmail and then you can set the From: to whatever you want (which
> probably isn't exactly right either, but that's a good enough
> oversimplification). If you are less fortunate, then the thing that sends
> email by default is Outlook, and it's probably not configured in a way that
> allows you to set the From:. And I hate to admit it, but that's probably a
> good thing.
I would think setting an arbitrary from would be the standard way of
sending mail nowadays. I mean, no one wants to be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] when they can be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] :)
also, it is quite nice to be able to set it to things like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so responses get automatically filtered into the
right boxes.
John
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