Hi Junio,

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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This addresses https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/406

Please note that this GitGitGadget run did not work as intended. The
intention of https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget/pull/296 was to
use the actual author in the `From:` headers of the sent emails, with
GitGitGadget mentioned in the `Sender:` header, but apparently this did
not work, and I will be reverting that PR for the time being.

It is close ;-)

The author name is correctly on "From:" but not the address.

Yes, but the problem seems to be insurmountable, as I _think_ it is to
prevent spammers from successfully sending "from abitrary email
addresses".

GMail adds an `X-Google-Original-From:` header with the original `From:`
header, and drops the `Sender:` header.

There _might_ be other SMTP servers out there that might allow us to do
this for GitGitGadget, but I am wary of undermining anti-spam measures
that way.

Ciao,
Dscho