A sender is someone who sends something remotely to someone.
Sender is a term that has the Latin word remittens as an etymological antecedent. The concept is associated with the verb send , whose most frequent meaning refers to the action of sending something to someone who is in a different place .
A sender, therefore, is someone who sends something remotely to some subject. For example: «A package arrived from the United States, but we do not know who the sender is» , «The detective was not surprised to find, next to his door, an envelope without a return address» , «Sir, a letter has arrived for you: The sender is Dr. Ángel Faluberti .
Sender concept
In letters or parcels that are sent through a postal service (mail), the sender is the person who acts as the sender , while the recipient is the recipient of the shipment.
Typically, sender information is listed on the front or back of the envelope. The most common data included is the sender's full name and address . Thanks to the presence of this information, it leaves open the possibility for the recipient to send a response.
In a letter or email, the sender is the sender.
An example
If Carlos López would like to send a letter to Juan Gómez to greet him on his birthday, he can write the note and send it to him by postal mail. While Juan will be the recipient, Carlos will be the sender of said shipment.
If the medium chosen for the congratulations was email , the sender's address (in this case, Carlos ) would appear in the "From" field.
Absent or false sender
When the letters do not include information about the sender, it is said to be an anonymous sending (no one takes credit for authoring the message or sending it). This cannot happen with an email message, although it is always possible to use a fake sender; In any case, the presence of a source address does not guarantee to the recipient the identity of the sender or that it is a trustworthy person.
In this sense, phishing is called the action of using the identity of another person or company to approach an Internet user and steal confidential information (which includes bank details, credit card numbers and passwords for online services). The person who carries out the identity theft is known as a phisher and usually sends email messages using the details of people the recipient trusts as sender.
The notion in medicine
The term remitter has a use in the field of medicine , to give a name to one of the known types of fever. First of all, it is worth mentioning that fever can be classified in different ways: one of them is based on its duration, where we find isolated fever, of short duration or prolonged (when it extends for a period equal to or greater than 10 days). ); according to its febrile curve , that is, the evolution of the fever over time.
Within this second classification is intermittent fever (which is characterized by numbers that fluctuate widely, with high peaks that occur during the day and a decrease to normal during the night; this is commonly observed in malaria and tuberculosis. disseminated), the remitting one (which is very similar to the previous one, although its fluctuations are less marked, and it remits more than 1 °C a day temporarily; it is normal in viral diseases and tuberculosis) and the continuous one ( when the fever presents remissions of less than 1 °C and does not return to normal values; disorders in which it is frequently seen are pneumococcal pneumonia, typhoid fever and brucellosis).