Subject: A question about email address

From: Qingchun Guo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:21:15 -0400

When I send eamil to someone, my email address appears automatically 
in the header of my message, such as:
From: Qingchun Guo <[email-masked]>

My question: Is there a way to make a different address appear here 
instead of my real address "[email-masked]"?

The reason I ask this question:  I change my computer very often.  Each 
time I change my computer, my real email address changes.  Fortunately, 
I have a formal email address in my organization: 
[email-masked].
If my friends send a message to this formal address, my organization 
will automatically forward it to my real address.  So I want all my 
friends to use my formal address, not my real address.  But if my real
address appears in the header of my every message, my friends will use 
my real address instead of my formal address.  That's why I want to let 
my formal address appear in the header of my message, instead of my real 
address.

Is that possible?  Thank you for your help.

If you write to me, please use my formal address
([email-masked]).  Please do not use my real address that 
appears in the header of this article.

Thanks in advance!

Qingchun Guo

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From: [email-masked] (Rob Funk)
Date: 6 Aug 1996 15:46:25 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
>instead of my real address "[email-masked]"?
[...]
>appears in the header of this article.

Sounds like a job for the "Reply-to:" header.

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From: Hans Schleichert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:06:05 +0200

You could add a customized header "Reply-To:" from main menu/setup/config.
If the replying person use the Reply-To: instead of From: address, you
will always receive their replies. Have a look at this message's header
(press H while viewing the msg) to see an example of a Reply-To: header.

         -  Hans

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 8 Aug 1996 15:28:33 -0400

Edmund Lau <[email-masked]> writes:
>> That's why I want to let 
>All you have to do is just set up
>the user-domain line to be what ever you want.  Hope this helps.

This only works if the username is the same at both the domain
names.  The general solution is to ask your sys admin to compile
pine so that ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM is permitted.  I really think
that the default pine should ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM and sys admins
should have to set DISALLOW_CHANGING_FROM if they do not want their
users to do this.  Zillions of programs, including the ubiquitous
Navigator allow people to change the From line.

  -Nancy

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 09:45:22 +0100 (BST)

I disagree.  It is precisely because Navigator etc make it so easy to set
up (also "misrepresent", "set up wrongly" and "forge other people's)
e-mail addresses that our University (and, I hope, others) take such a dim
view of them for use as mailers.

The solution we use (as do many sites) is to have a properly managed mail
hub.  All outgoing mail is directed through the hub, which rewrites
headers -- specifically the From: line -- appropriately.  In our case this
is to harmonise the e-mail address to "[email-masked]"
regardless of which machine the message originated from.  It could also
change "username" to "real name" if we so wished (we don't).

This, surely, is the best solution as it doesn't then involve each and
every user duplicating effort (and possibly making mistakes) setting their
own From: line up.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Matt Chatterley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:33:45 +0000

> Sounds like a job for the "Reply-to:" header.

That, or compile your own pine binary (if you are using linux, or a UNIX
flavor on your home machine and are in a position to do this), and enable
ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM, then edit the from line (in config) to your real
address. This is what I've done, after using reply-to for a while (ti
works, but i had big problems with mail lists that confirm you're a member
before allowing your post through).

Regards,

	-Matt Chatterley
http://user.itl.net/~neddy/index.html

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