[gentoo-user] Re: gmail smtp overwrites the sender

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>]

On 11/03/12 18:14, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2012-03-11, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> There is no "display from".  I use Thunderbird and it reports the "from"
>> correctly (that is, it says the mail did not come from GMail.)  All mail
>> clients do that.
>
> Outlook never used to.  It always used to display the "on behalf of"
> stuff.
>
>> They use the "From:" address.  It's a standard specified in an RFC.
>
> Oh, well Microsoft has never violated an RFC, so I'm sure you're right.

GMail does not generate an "on behalf of" header either.  I just tested 
it.  I've sent an email through GMail's SMTP.  Here are the relevant 
headers of the email that arrived.  "my_other_address" is what I used as 
"From:"

   Return-path: <realnc@gmail.com>
   Envelope-to: my_other_address
   Sender: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
   From: my_other_address

The OP mentioned that the problem is that he wants to subscribe to a 
mailing list, but that list sends the verification mail to the "Sender:" 
address rather than the "From:" address.  Which sounds very weird to me. 
  If you want to subscribe the "From:" address to a list, why would they 
want to verify the "Sender:" address instead?  Makes no sense.