Subject: Obvious return address problem

From: Erin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:07:54 -0400

This is probably a dumb question, but...
when I post to a newsgroup (say, for example, this one), the index shows
"To: alt.test" instead of my email address.  How do I change this so that
people can see that the post is from me?!?!

Thanks for your help.

Erin
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 11:35:33 +0100 (BST)

Other people see exactly the right thing.

Pine is merely helping you (and you alone) by providing you a little more
information than could otherwise be displayed.  Instead of just saying

	Your name

as the sender (which you already know!) it displays

	"To: recipient's name"

This is ONLY done on YOUR screen when you display the folder's contents;
everyone else has seen exactly the right thing in the message/article you
sent out.

The "To:" *implies* the message is from yourself, and the extra space is
used to show who you sent the message to.  In general this extra
information is more useful than merely listing your own name and leaving
you to guess/remember who you sent this particular message to.

It's a shame that so few people appreciate it! :-)

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Joshua Hosseinof <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 14:01:44 -0400

Probably is right, but i suppose it should be covered in the FAQ.  If you
log into a friends account you will see that it does show your name.  Mail
or posts that are from you are shown in the index with the To: header.
Just look in your sent-mail folder - its the same way in there.

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From: Leanne McKay <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:49:12 +1000

I have appreciated ;-) this feature since old version 3.05, which
I've just swapped for 3.91.  In my recently saved messages, I
still get 'To:..' but my older messages suddenly just showed 
my name as the sender.

Upon investigating, I found out that pine 3.91 is putting 
straight <[email-masked]> in the 'From:' of recent messages,
but the earlier version used the $NAME environment variable
which had 'L.McKay', so 'From:' had <[email-masked]> (an
alias happily recognised on my system for returns).

Pine now thinks I am <[email-masked]>.
Consequently, Pine does not know I wrote the old messages.

I've looked at all the new configurable options, but cannot
find one that lets me customise what Pine puts in 'From: '.
I'd like to use $NAME environment variable again, but have
not yet found any documentation that the ability to use it 
ever existed.  Was it a proper feature of Pine 3.05 or would 
it have just been implemented on our site (and how)?

Thanks,
Leanne.

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From: Vladimír Solnický {Vladimir Solnicky} <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 17:44:28 +0200 (METDST)

> Consequently, Pine does not know I wrote the old messages.

I do not know 3.05 but I suppose thi sfeature was removed due to a
risc that some users might fake their From: addresses. If you upgrade to
3.95 (a few months old version -- the newest one) than you can set
alternative addresses you want to be recognized by pine as yours.

Another reason for changing to the new version is the ability to decode
RFC 1522's encoding thus seeing my name in From: properly :-)

Regards,

V. S.

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