Lindsay Haisley wrote: >On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:49 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: >> Is there a way that we can require some of these things (if they exist) >> to match each other? I.e. to require the 'from' and the 'reply-to' to >> match? > >This might not be such a good idea. A "Reply-To" header is optional is >generally used if a reply should be sent to some address _other_ than >the specified From header address, so if it's present, it may logically >not match the From header address. I'm not so sure about the Sender >header, but I know that it's optional and I believe it's also used to >further "fine tune" information regarding the origin of an email if it's >from an organization.
The intent of Sender: is along the lines of From: The Boss Sender: The Boss's Secretary About the only things that you can "normally" expect to match are From: and envelope sender, but even there, there will be legitimate mail in which they won't match. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
