Subject: Problem with pine headers

From: [email-masked] (David Coder)
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 21:14:49 GMT

Problem:  My posts (using pine) to mailing lists are coming back to me
with "To: <name of mailing list>" instead of my own name.  How can I
change this?  I have been in & out of setup/config a zillion times without
success.

Thanks.

David Coder 
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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 19:08:29 -0500

> change this?  I have been in & out of setup/config a zillion times without

    Nothing is broken.  This is just the way Pine works.  The
presumption is that you already know your own name, so why tell 
you your own name again?  In version 3.95 it may be possible to 
reset the fields in an index listing, but I am only on 3.94, so 
I am uncertain about that.

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From: [email-masked] (David Coder)
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 03:50:48 GMT

Paul O Bartlett ([email-masked]) wrote:
: On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, David Coder wrote:

: > Problem:  My posts (using pine) to mailing lists are coming back to me
: > with "To: <name of mailing list>" instead of my own name.  How can I
: > change this?  I have been in & out of setup/config a zillion times without
: > success.

:     Nothing is broken.  This is just the way Pine works.  The
: presumption is that you already know your own name, so why tell 
: you your own name again?  In version 3.95 it may be possible to 
: reset the fields in an index listing, but I am only on 3.94, so 
: I am uncertain about that.

: Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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You mean none of the other people who are posting to mailing lists are
using pine?  Or does the mailing list somehow know when an addressee = the
original poster?

DC

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 13:38:19 +0800 (GMT)

> using pine?  Or does the mailing list somehow know when an addressee = the

	Please go to the setup/configure menu and find the option:

	index-format 

	Then read the "?" help about this option paying close attention to
the FROM and FROMORTO parameters.

	Also, find:

	alt-addresses

	and read the "?" help about this option.

	Remember the meaning of "RIF"?  Reading is Fundamental.  In this
case, as in many cases, reading is fundamental to understanding how/why
things work as they do.

	Regards,

		Ed

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From: Kyle VanderBeek <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 10:09:04 -0500

> change this?  I have been in & out of setup/config a zillion times without

This actually has little to do with Pine.  When you send to a mailing
list, you even specify the "To:" as the mailing list address, right? 
When the list software sends out the mail, it maintains this "To:"
field, and handles the delivery to each of the list's members itself. 
You may even notice that the "From:" header isn't even you in some
cases.  The remailer might change that as well.  Again, this behavior is
not a function of pine.

Kyle.