Subject: HELP: customizing user-name in "From: " field

From: [email-masked] (Dong Lin)
Date: 23 Jan 1996 19:35:51 -0500

Could someone tell me if it is possible to customize user-name in the
"From: " field ?  I know I can reset personal-name and user-domain,
but .pinerc does not let me change the user name.  so the "From: "
field will end up with something like:
	"Customized Personal-name" [email-masked]
				   ^^^^^^^^^
I would like to be able to set customized user-name too.

Here is why I want to do this:

I am travelling to a place where I have to borrow an account.  I
cannot telnet to my own host because the delay and loss rate are
intolerable.  I want to send email to people and hope they reply or
email to my own account.

I know I can fix it in the "Reply To:" header field, but what if they
use mail instead of reply?

I also understand this will allow forging emails, but this is exactly
what netscape it configured to do, right?  People don't have to use
pine to forge mails.

thanks very much for your help.

Dong Lin
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Dong

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From: [email-masked] (Jerry Lynch)
Date: 25 Jan 1996 02:57:56 GMT

You can have pine change the FROM line as a customized header IF that 
functionality is compiled into pine.  The file you need to change is: 

pine3.91/pine/osdep/os-xxx.h

Just change the flag ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM and recompile.

Jerry   <[email-masked]>

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Jerry	<[email-masked]>