Subject: "From:"-header

From: [email-masked] (Jo Totland)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 18:21:59 +0100

Hi, I am running Linux on a system with dialup-access to my ISP.
Because of this, my machine has no real Internet-adress, or
registered domain-name. Also, my username on my local machine is of
course not similar to the one at my ISP.

How does one fix the "From:" header in outgoing mail and news to be
correct? (I know I can set "Reply-To:" but it isn't very satisfying
for obvious reasons).

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From: [email-masked] (Georg Schwarz)
Date: 7 Mar 1997 09:13:27 GMT

>correct? (I know I can set "Reply-To:" but it isn't very satisfying

as I understand it, pine must be compiled to allow you changing the From:
header. The settings the source comes with do not do so. So if you compile
pine out of the box without any adjustments you cannot change From:, if
I'm not mistaken.
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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:31:12 +0100

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Nancy McGough wrote:

> Does anyone know how to do this in PC Pine for Windows 95?  

In PC-Pine you define the name in the userid part, and the domain in
user-domain. You don't need to change the From name.

Just make sure that the inbox is defined with a user if the name and login
id are different.

	user-id=dat95pkn
	user-domain=mds.mdh.se
	inbox-path={legolas.mdh.se/user=dat95pkn}INBOX

is what I have.

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 17:27:04 GMT

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> Add ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM among the compile-time options in
> pine/makefile.lnx, and then re-compile.

Does anyone know how to do this in PC Pine for Windows 95?  For
example, I'd like to have the From header of this very message be:

 From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>

Thanks,
Nancy, beginning my battle against email addresss harvesters

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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 12:15:51 +0100

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Jo Totland wrote:

> correct? 

CFLAGS=      $(OPTIMIZE) $(PROFILE) $(DEBUG) $(EXTRACFLAGS) $(STDCFLAGS) -DALLOW_CHANGING_FROM

is what I changed, and here it works (From is [email-masked], Sender
is [email-masked])

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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 09:27:23 +0100

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Nancy McGough wrote:

> Yes, I know about this way of changing the From line in PC-Pine but
> I want to have something equivalent to the Unix Pine
> ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM functionality.

Well, then, what you have to do then is to recompile the program, with
that flag turned on. Then you will be able to do just that.

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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 22:12:27 +0100

On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Nancy McGough wrote:

>  ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.gz

Yes, that's it. It's the Pine/PC-Pine sources (they are the same).

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