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sendmail allows unauthenticated identities in the "Sender:" field

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Buddha@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 6 15:28:41 1989

Date: Wed, 6 Dec 89 15:28:21 -0500
From: Buddha@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

Section 4.4.2 of RFC822 says of the "Sender:" header of a mail message:

	This field contains the authenticated identity of the
	AGENT (person, system or process) that sends the message.

This doesn't seem to be the case when I use emacs mail mode and enter
"From:" and "Sender:" fields myself.


				  -- The (unauthentic) Laughing Buddha

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