Subject: Re: how i can send Mail using different Name ?

From: [email-masked] (J.Y.E. Tse)
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 22:20:08 GMT

In article <01bbb7bd$6a63fbe0$b0035ac2@rabia>,
rabia <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Hi all , i need help using pine 3.95
>
>My work is Support mail and i want to be able to send email using other
>names
>how i can change the "  From field " name ?

  If all you want to change is only your name, you can go to the Setup
Configuration menu from the Main Menu by pressing "s", "c".
  The first field should be "personal-name". You can modify it.
  Hope this helps.

J.

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From: "rabia" <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 Oct 1996 21:39:48 GMT

thanks a lot

[email-masked]

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From: Gregor J Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 17:44:27 -0400 (EDT)

On 11 Oct 1996, rabia wrote:
 
 | My work is Support mail and i want to be able to send email using other
 | names
 | how i can change the "  From field " name ?

On 15 Oct 1996, D.M. Freye wrote:

 | I am using Pine on a multiuser Unix system. Any email I send with pine
 | automatically has my email address on the Unix system as the From: address
 | in the email. Does anyone know if it is possible to change the email
 | address shown in the From: field to something I choose myself.

It is not usually possible to change the From: field. This appears to be
generally considered to be good for reasons of security and propriety. In
any case, why do you want to change it? What are you trying to hide? I can
think of no (legitimate) reason to do so. Would you send a letter and
write a false return address on it? If you were to receive snail mail with
an obviously or not so obviously false address, would you do more than
puzzle at it? In any case, even if you could change it, it might not do
much good. At this site, at least, the From: field is stripped by sendmail
_after_ Pine has dealt with it, so that the address conforms to
user@domain. There are obvious security considerations here. 
 
I am aware that some (but not me) would insist on the possibility of
anonymity, but I ask you again: what would you do if you receive an
anonymous letter? (... on the other hand, there is a tradition in England
of sending anonymous love letters on Saint Valentine's day ...). 

What about taking somebody's mail to the Post Office and putting it in the
mailbox? Well, it apears that you can't do that with Pine either. But,
what you can do is ask your recipient(s) to reply to someone else, or
yourself somewhere else. To do this, include the header Reply-to: in your
messages.  Information on how to do this can be found in the help for
"setup", "config", "customized-hdrs". Read carefully.

Yours

Gregor
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Boston MA 02118

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From: Rabia Qusseiny <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:13:45 +0200 (IST)

Hi , Thank you very much for your Email , I guess i didn't explain my self
good in my first email , so i understand your reply , and the way you
talked about Hide, anonymous ,security etc...

well i'll Explain now .

I am a SysAdmin in a Big ISP Internet provider (netvision.net.il) , in my
department we support customers using Email.
well i am responsible about these issues - bigmail , bigftp, news,system,
So when i want to send mail to a customer i can't every time to login to
other mailbox and send the mail from there , for example
i want to send mail to a customer that have a bigmail in his mailbox 
so i send it as [email-masked] ...
and if i want to send it as news support , so i send using
[email-masked] , and all the other mail support are the same.
I hope that you understand me now , this problem with Pine is not My only
problem all my department suffer from this issue.
becouse when i send a message using my computer , the client send back the
email " using my address ", my private email.
the truth is that my friend using now elm becouse there is an option Group
reply , and you can send the mail using any Mail List You want.
I tried to add the Reply-to option but the customers keep sending mail to
my private Name .!!
I Hope now i explained my problem and you understand that i am not a Kid
who want to make Fun and send anonymous emails.
Please if there any program or special way to solve this issue . We need
IT.

Thanks again for your Email. And i hope our problem can be solved.

                                              Rabia .

> "setup", "config", "customized-hdrs". Read carefully.
   
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      Rabia Qusseiny           ( o o )                 NonDOS
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      Junior System Administrator - NetVision Ltd.
      Matam - Scientific Industry Center, Haifa 31905, Israel
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      http://www.NetVision.net.il/~rabia
      Phone: 972-4-8560-600 Extension #585   
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