[Techtalk] Can't send mail from emacs

[Mary]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004, dominik.schramm at gmxpro.net wrote:
> Oh, that was quick. I'll kill my half-finished mail, but I'd like to
> add that the "offensive sender" here is the *envelope sender* address,
> not the header from: address (they may be identical but that's not
> necessary), and modifying the envelope sender is harder than using a
> different from: address.

Yes, sorry, I didn't make that clear in my message.

Some mail clients do set the envelope sender too (I think most GUI ones
do), but some don't -- or don't set it in a configurable way. Mail
servers and relays can usually be configured to either set it or rewrite
it though.

-Mary