Subject: Re: From field in Pine 3.94

From: Sheldon Hearn <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 21:13:25 +0200

Hehehe, they say the best man for the job is the one who suggests it needs
doing. They also say RTFM. Well, having taken a little time to read
/usr/doc/pine-3.95-1/tech-notes , I've found the solution to my problem,
which will hopefully be of benefit to others... 

On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> I've seen one of the guys in the office set things up so that he can
> change his From: field while composing messages...

/usr/doc/pine-3.95-1/tech-notes:
ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM
    Determines whether users are allowed to modify the From line on
    outgoing mail. Even with this turned on, users will have to include
    From in their default-composer-hdrs or customized-hdrs in order to be
    able to edit the From line. Default is to not

So it seems this is an optional, compile-time restriction. A good idea,
really, just a pity it limits the decent folks. Ah well, only 30 hours to
go before my download completes. Don't you love it when your local mirrors
are down? :)

Regards,
Sheldon.
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From: Sheldon Hearn <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 17:48:42 +0200

.pinerc:
# Add these customized headers (and possible default values) when
# composing
customized-hdrs=From: Sheldon Hearn <[email-masked]>,
	Reply-To:

He is using FreeBSD 2.1.5STABLE and Pine 3.95 . I'm using Redhat 3.0.3
linux (with which I'm thrilled, I got a real malicious kick out of nuking
my Win95 drive for more swap space) and Pine 3.95 .

If I leave my .pinerc set up like that, I get the message "Not allowed to
modify From field" when I start composing a message. On my friend's BSD
system, it works fine.

As an aside, I realise that changing From fields is often a means of
abusing email, however the ability to do so would come in very handy for
work purposes.

Any comments would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Sheldon.

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