Subject: Setting a global From address

From: Cindy Jenkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 12:28:09 -0700 (PDT)

Hi, I've been hunting in the pinerc file and can't locate how to set this 
up. Is it possible to set up a From address in the pinerc of a user's 
account, so that when a message is sent from that account, the From line 
has a generic address (like pine-help@cac) rather than the person's 
address? If so, where do i set this up?

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 14:10:42 -0700 (PDT)

Cindy,

The next release of Pine will support both the Reply-To: header and a
pre-settable From: header.  We expect to have it available later this spring. 

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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From: Barry Cornelius <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 09:52:58 +0100 (BST)

> pre-settable From: header.  We expect to have it available later this spring. 

Although it may be useful at other sites, we would be very unhappy if our
users have the ability to change the From: line.  I hope that, if this
facility is included, you will also allow for the person who is installing
Pine to disable the facility. 

If not, we will have to patch Pine 3.90 when we receive it in order to
disable the setting of the From: line.  If we don't do this, my guess we
would have lots of faked mail sent. 

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From: Matt Messina <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 12:57:02 -0400 (EDT)

> would have lots of faked mail sent. 

I haven't actually read the RFC, but it's my understanding that that's 
what the Sender header line is for -- anyway, anyone who wants to fake 
mail could just do it with an agent other than pine (eg binmail).
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