Subject: Changing "From" field in outgoing mail

From: Sean Crotty <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:41:19 -0600

I'm trying to change by "From" field in outgoing mail from:

 [email-masked]
	to
 [email-masked]

I am using pine from CU-Denver, so it auotmatically gets my address.
Using what I have already found, I've been able to transform the
address to:

 [email-masked]

But I can't figure out how to change my User-ID from "scrotty" to
"seancrotty".

Any suggestions?

Thank You,
Sean

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:17:04 +0100 (BST)

As standard you are not able to change the "From:" field.  Pine is
supplied configured in this way for, I presume, security reasons to reduce
risk of mail forgery.  (It is possible for the systems administrator to
recomp[ile Pine to allow changing the "From:" header.)

Perhaps what you're really after doing is the (much easier) setting up of
a "Reply-to:" header with your normal e-mail address as its value?

You can do this by going to Pine's Setup Configuration screen ("S" then
"C" from the Main Menu).  Then adding a "Customized header" called
"Reply-To: Sean Crotty <[email-masked]>"

The header will then be available on every message you send and, because
you also set up a value, will be initialised to that value.

Most mail programs will either use of offer to use the Reply-To address in
place of the From field's value.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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