bug#1776: [Pierre THIERRY] Use of non-standard header without X- before

[Sven Joachim]

Does anybody know what the mail-sent-via command is good for?  It has
been in sendmail.el since revision 1.1, but I fail to see the purpose of
the non-standard Sent-via header.


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> Subject: Bug#173206: emacs21: Use of non-standard header without X- before
> Reply-To: Pierre THIERRY <pierre.thierry@moine-fou.org>, 173206@bugs.debian.org
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> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:46:06 +0100
> From: Pierre THIERRY <pierre.thierry@moine-fou.org>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Message-ID: <20021215184606.GA5081@bateleur.arcanes>
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> Package: emacs21
> Version: 21.2-1
> Severity: normal
>
> The rmail mode can send a "Sent-Via" header but it is not described in
> any RFC, so it should be "X-Sent-Via". Why not using "Sender" ?
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux bateleur.arcanes 2.4.19-bateleur #1 ven ao=FB 16 03:37:33 CES=
> T 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=3Dfr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=3Dfr_FR@euro
>
> Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
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>  Deb
> ii  emacsen-common           1.4.15          Common facilities for all emac=
> sen.
> ii  libc6                    2.2.5-14.3      GNU C Library: Shared librarie=
> s an
> ii  libjpeg62                6b-6            The Independent JPEG Group's J=
> PEG=20
> ii  liblockfile1             1.03            NFS-safe locking library, incl=
> udes
> ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-8 Shared libraries for terminal =
> hand
> ii  libpng2                  1.0.12-6        PNG library - runtime
> ii  libtiff3g                3.5.5-6         Tag Image File Format library
> ii  xaw3dg                   1.5-14          Xaw3d widget set
> ii  xlibs                    4.2.1-3         X Window System client librari=
> es
> ii  zlib1g                   1:1.1.4-6       compression library - runtime
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