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June 24, 2019

New laptop, old reminder

By steve
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24June

I have a new laptop.

New OS (maybe this year will be the year of Linux on the Desktop?). New hardware problems. New applications. New keyboard layout.

New mail client.

It reminded me of another reason why you want to keep the email address in your From: consistent – it’s something some users will use to automatically load images, which is something you probably want.

April 14, 2014

The anatomy of From:

By steve
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14April

Compared with some of the more complex pieces of the email protocol the From: header seems deceptively simple. But I’ve heard several people be confused about what it’s made up of over the past couple of months, so I thought I’d dig a bit deeper into how it’s defined and how it’s used in practice. Here’s a simple example:     There are two interesting...

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