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On 2012-03-11, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 11/03/12 18:14, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> On 2012-03-11, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> There is no "display from". I use Thunderbird and it reports the |
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>>> "from" correctly (that is, it says the mail did not come from GMail.) |
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>>> All mail clients do that. |
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>> Outlook never used to. It always used to display the "on behalf of" |
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>> stuff. |
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>>> They use the "From:" address. It's a standard specified in an RFC. |
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>> Oh, well Microsoft has never violated an RFC, so I'm sure you're right. |
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> GMail does not generate an "on behalf of" header either. |
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> I just tested it. I've sent an email through GMail's SMTP. Here are |
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> the relevant headers of the email that arrived. "my_other_address" |
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> is what I used as "From:" |
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> Return-path: <realnc@×××××.com> |
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> Envelope-to: my_other_address |
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> Sender: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> |
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> From: my_other_address |
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Ah! Apparently gmail has fixed the "sender" problem. According to |
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wikipedia, they now allow you to use somebody else's SMTP server: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#On_behalf_of |
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That's not what you're doing? |
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If they have indeed fixed it so you can send mail using Google's SMTP |
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server and have something other than your gmail address show up in the |
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"sender" field, then it's time to celebrate. |
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> The OP mentioned that the problem is that he wants to subscribe to a |
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> mailing list, but that list sends the verification mail to the "Sender:" |
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> address rather than the "From:" address. Which sounds very weird to me. |
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> If you want to subscribe the "From:" address to a list, why would they |
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> want to verify the "Sender:" address instead? Makes no sense. |
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Dunno. I didn't relly understand what the OP was saying. I was |
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confirming (erroneously), the gmail would always put the gmail address |
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in the "sender" header, which then triggered Outlook to display the |
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"on behalf of" stuff. That issue has apparently been fixed. |
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Grant |
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