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Re: Sent messages contain 'From nobody' header


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Sent messages contain 'From nobody' header
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:14:13 +0200

> From: Abhiseck Paira <abhiseck@paira.in>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:44:31 +0530
> 
> > On inspecting my sent messages -- either using rmail, or just 
> > viewing
> > the file as plain text -- I notice that each is prepended with a 
> > header
> > that looks like the following:
> 
> >   From nobody Thu Feb  8 08:23:10 2024
> 
> This looks like part of the Mbox format specification.  Email 
> readers use this "From " line to determine the start of a new 
> message.  See the Wikipedia article[1] for details.

The "From " part is the mbox format spec, but the "nobody" part isn't.
I use sendmail.el, not message.el, and it puts my address after
"From", not "nobody".  I guess message.el doesn't bother, or maybe
this is somehow triggered by the OP's email setup.



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