Subject: Re: Changing the from line

From: Keith Reel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 14:55:48 -0600

Actually, they can change this from their .pinerc file.  However, the 
system administrator can administratively prevent this.  All he/she 
needs to do is create a pine.conf.fixed file (in addition to the 
pine.conf file) and make the appropriate settings.

What the pine.conf.fixed file does is permanently fixes any settings you 
do not want your users changing.

Guess how we found this out?  Yep, our students were coming up with 
creative "from" names too.

Hope this helps

Keith Reel
ONU System Administrator

On 31 Jan 1995, Brian P. Hampson wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, David Ewing wrote:
> 
> > Pine 3.05 on AIX 3.2.5.   Several students at our institution are changing 
> > the FROM line in their outgoing mail.   For some reason, the sender line is 
> > not showing up either.   They are changing the address to GOD@UNIVERSE.
> > Needless to say, the teacher who is receiving most of the mail is curious who 
> > God really is.  Is there a way to insure that the sender will be correctly 
> > identified.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> In later versions (we're up to 3.91 now I think), there IS no FROM line 
> handed to you, and there is greater control for the system adminstrator.
> 
> B.
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