Re: use_from (was Re: your mail)
Hi Will,
On Monday, August 1, 2005 at 10:12:57 AM -0700, William B. Yardley wrote:
> what's the point of having both "$from" and "$use_from"?
A tristate and the useless:
· With both unset: No "From:" field.
· $from set but $use_from unset: No "From:" field.
· $from unset but $use_from set: "From:" is generated using some system
default. "username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" generally. AFAICS not
documented. Default, unless Debian.
· Both set: You get what you set.
Note env var EMAIL can implicitly populate $from, jumping from case
3 to 4 behind your back. And "my_hdr From:" overrides everything.
> I know that having to set $use_from is something that's confused a lot
> of folks.
What do you want? Offering tristate with only $from: Unset, empty
string, and set?
Bye! Alain.
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