Subject: Help newbie: e-mail

From: James Champion <[email-masked]>
Date: 27 Oct 1995 02:45:16 GMT

I am currently using pine for e-mail on a PC running the Linux op system.
I usually login as root, use popclient to get my mail from my ISP then
use pine to read/reply/compose, etc.  I can send mail fine, but but in the
'from' header my e-mail address is something like 'champion <[email-masked]>'
but I would like it to be [email-masked] so that people replying will
have the mail sent to the proper return address.  Is there a way that I can
force my 'From' header to be [email-masked] even though I am logged on
as root?

Thanks for your time!

Jim Champion

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From: Apu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 10:30:43 -0400 (EDT)

> force my 'From' header to be [email-masked] even though I am logged on

(a) Best solution:
Make yourself a user 'champion' and login and use that user.  This will 
prevent accidentally issuing a 'rm *' in '/' deleting everything.  root 
should be reserved for use only when you need system administrator priv's 
not for general use.  Under this solution, your e-mail will go out as being 
from 'champion' and you'll be set.  Not only will it solve your Pine 
problem, but it will increase the security and safety of your system.

(b) Bad solution:
If you really HAVE to (not want to) work as root, get the source for 
Pine 3.91 and modify the pine/osdep/os-lnx.h file.  You need to uncomment 
out the '#define ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM' option.  Compile that ('build lnx'),
then add the 'From: <[email-masked]>' to the custom headers section 
of your .pinerc.

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