Subject: Re: Q: changing the "From"-Field in outgoing messages

From: [email-masked] (Georg Schwarz)
Date: 28 Aug 1996 11:15:42 GMT

[email-masked] (Ralf Hereth) writes:

>config-file doesn't seem to solve this problem. The only workaround that I 
>found out is to use a customized header "Reply-to:" in my config-file. 

>Does anybody know a possibility to change the "From"-field of outgoing mail 
>to another address?

I don't think you should change the "From" (note: no ':') line, but
isn't it possible to put a "From: address" in the customized header?
I do this with elm.
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From: [email-masked] (Ralf Hereth)
Date: 28 Aug 1996 08:43:11 GMT

My problem is the following: 

I'm using a pc under linux and therefore I'm using the installed sendmail 
for sending e-mail. Incoming mail is collected by a pop-server, and I'm 
using the pop-protocol to transport incoming mail from this pop-server to my 
local pc. I'm using different login-names for the pop-server and for my 
local pc. 

When sending e-mail Pine automatically puts my login-name of my local pc 
into the "From"-field, so that a reply to this address is sent to the user 
of the pop-server which has the same login-name there as I have on my local 
pc. Changing the fields "personal-name" and/or "user-domain" in the 
config-file doesn't seem to solve this problem. The only workaround that I 
found out is to use a customized header "Reply-to:" in my config-file. 

Ralf Hereth <[email-masked]>
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