Subject: From: field problems

From: "David C. Shear" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:49:29 -0500

I'm new to the group and did not have access to all the posts on the
"From:-" discussion, so please bear with me.

I'm running Pine 3.93 on a Digital Unix system. I have a similiar problem
with the news portion on Pine when I create a post; The To: field has:

3 Mar  5 To: alt.test.my                 is the "To" corrected
4 Mar  5 To: alt.test.my                 Re: this is the subject line
5 Mar  4 To: alt.test.my                 this is the subject line

The email/name does not appear in the From: field like:

52 Mar  5 Ross Toth                      one more test
53 Mar  5 ross toth                      test
54 Mar  3 Richard P Johnson              Ignore

This only occurs with news, mail works fine. It also only occurs to the
author of the post in Pine, reading the news using another news
reader (like Netscape) or as another user shows the correct name/email
address.

Do I have the same problem and therefore have to recompile using the
ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM option?? 

Or is this a different problem.

Thanks in advance,
DCS
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:05:28 +0000 (GMT)

(Most of us on this list wish we had a pind/dollar/unit-of-local-currency
for every time this question has been asked and answered! :-)

The "To: newsgroupname" and "To: recipientaddress" is only visible to you
in _your_ index screen.  Everyone else sees the message as being from you,
with your details in place.

Pine is trying to be helpful.  It assumes that you know your own name, and
hence that it can merely *imply* the message originates from you by the
presence of the word "To:".  The remainder of the space is then used to
show the details of the first recipient (for e-mailed messages) or the
newsgroup name (for messages sent only to a newsgroup).

This is actually described in the built-in help for the Folder Index
screen.  Try typing a "?" whilst on that screen to see this, and look for
a description of the "SENDER" column.

The feature is fantastically useful if you keep copies of the messages in
folders, along with any replies you recieve.  For example in my "Pine"
folder I can quickly spot in the Index any messages I have sent to other
people.

If you really can't live with this feature then it _is_ possible to alter
it.  Try investingating the "index-format" variable in the Setup
Configuration screen.  It, too, has built-in help; this should be
sufficient to let you work out what needs to be done.

If you _aren't_ seeing this effect then the e-mail address Pine thinks "is
you" may not be exactly matching your address in received messages.  Try
adding any such alternative addresses to the "alt-addresses" variable,
also in the Setup Configuration screen.

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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