Subject: Setting my user-id in Unix Pine

From: [email-masked] (Jim Blake)
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 14:51:33 -0400

I'm trying to figure something out -- it's probably something simple that
I'm overlooking. I've decided to swallow my pride and beg for help from the
cogniscenti.

We're using an IMAP server on campus, and I have a mailbox there with the
id of 'jblake'. I'm reading my mail using PC-Pine sometimes, and other
times from a Unix system (SunOS) where my id is 'jim'.

I can read my IMAP mail just by specifying the INBOX path correctly. But
when I send mail, I want it to appear to come from 'jblake', and I can't
seem to make that happen.

PC-Pine accepts a parameter for "user-id=jblake". I specify that and my
domain, and voila!, the mail I send appears to come from
[email-masked].

Unix Pine, on the other hand, does not recognize the "user-id" parameter,
and though I twist and turn and set environment variables until I get
tired, my mail still appears to come from jim#binghamton.edu -- which is
not a valid address!

I know of other people on campus who have this problem also; some using
SunOS and some using Solaris. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

jb

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Jim Blake                                  Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
Assistant Director                             [email-masked]
Binghamton University Computing Services               (607)777-2095