Subject: editing From: header needed or possible?

From: [email-masked] (Eberhard Weber)
Date: 26 Jul 1996 02:09:37 -0700

Just received our new domain name from NIC.  All mail to mycompany.com
should go into my mailbox and I can use procmail to filter who the
mail should go to.  But when various users send mail, they want their 
own name to be on the From: line like [email-masked]

I have found no way to edit From: or to have an addressbook-type
list of legal names to insert for From:

Any suggestions?

Thanks for thinking about that and letting me know.

Eberhard Weber
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 01:38:56 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked]
(Eberhard Weber) writes:

I take from your use of procmail that we are speaking of a Unix host.
If the user names match in both the real and fake addresses, you could
set the user-domain variable in the pine.conf global configuration file.

A mailer-independent solution would involve sendmail.  For instance, if
you have a BSD 8.x sendmail with m4-generated config files, then the
MASQUERADE_AS feature will accomplish what you need.

Here it sounds like you might desire aliasing the hostname for some
addresses and not for others.  A sendmail solution is sufficient and, as
far as I know, necessary for this.  See the Multiple Domains and Virtual
Domains topics in comp.mail.sendmail for details.

Hoping this helps,
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