Subject: Re: Change return address ("From:") in Pine

From: [email-masked] (David W Starr)
Date: 12 Jul 1995 03:21:28 GMT

Paul Robinson ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Mark Swearingen ([email-masked]) wrote:
: : [email-masked] (Trey Harris) writes:

: : I understand your concern re: deceptive e-mail and the problems it presents you 
: : as a system administrator.  It was certainly not my intent to encourage 
: : forgery.  However, for people who have more than one address at which they can 
: : receive e-mail, it would be convenient to set the return address at one 
: : location to the other address, so that all return mail came to one location.  
: : Thus, there is a "legitimate" use for such a feature.

In this case, there is a customizable header line in your Pine config 
area, put "Reply-To: " and the desired email address, that'll do it for you.

: : To get back to my original question, it would appear from your response that 
: : Pine does not have a configuration option for setting the username on the 
: : return address.  Thank you for that information.

: You can, you just have to recompile the source to allow the From: and 
: Sender: headers to change.    Default is to not allow those to be changed.

How do you do this?   I am also interested...

: Then you have to add them to the set of optional headers.

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