Subject: Re: Faking From: in Pine

From: [email-masked] (David Richards)
Date: 24 Apr 1997 02:46:32 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Rickey Hite <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Could someone tell me how to fake a from header with Pine? My wife
>and I share an account (by using an alias for her) and I would love for
>her to be able to send mail with her alias in the From: field instead of
>the bogus gazer@(made up domain) and Reply-To:her address combination that
>I use now. All this does is confuse people as to what her address is. We
>are using Pine on a Unix system.
> 
> Thanks in advance for ANY suggestions.

Pine's configuration file (.pinerc) allows you to change your full name
and domain name, but not the 'user@' part of the sender address unless
it is compiled with 'ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM' enabled.

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From: [email-masked] (Holger Trapp)
Date: 24 Apr 97 09:08:20 GMT

>it is compiled with 'ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM' enabled.

There is another way which doesn't require a recompilation of pine. You can
write your message with Compose, postpone it with Ctrl-O, edit the folder for
postponed messages (in my installation $HOME/Mail/postponed-msgs) and then send
the modified postponed message (via Compose and Ctrl-X).

Pine stores the complete mails with From: and Reply-To: lines in the folder for
postponed mails and reads this info back without further checks when resuming
the composition. So it's easy to modify the addresses with an ASCII editor.

Holger

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From: Christopher Hicks <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:04:21 -0400 (EDT)

On 24 Apr 1997, Holger Trapp wrote:
> There is another way which doesn't require a recompilation of pine. You
> can write your message with Compose, postpone it with Ctrl-O, edit the
> folder for postponed messages (in my installation
> $HOME/Mail/postponed-msgs) and then send the modified postponed message
> (via Compose and Ctrl-X). 
> 
> Pine stores the complete mails with From: and Reply-To: lines in the
> folder for postponed mails and reads this info back without further
> checks when resuming the composition. So it's easy to modify the
> addresses with an ASCII editor. 

This is masteful and very hackish.  Congratulations on coming up with a
way to handle this.

That said, if anybody has enough time and or energy that they're willing
to actually do this in practice, would you please review Larry Wall's
comments on the virtues of "laziness"?

Honestly, this has been bugging me for a while.  My free software plate is
getting cleared off and I'm going to tackle this (and hopefully the
client/server addressbook stuff) within the next month or so.

</chris>

Any chance of those paper cups and string being upgraded to tin cans
and wire?  Or as a coworker has said . . . I've seen better throughput
from a pair of gorillas and flash cards.   -Jon Lewis <[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked] (Rickey Hite)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:57:29 GMT

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From: Christopher Hicks <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 07:05:39 -0400 (EDT)

>  Thanks in advance for ANY suggestions.

You could have two pine configuration files and select the appropriate one
using a command line option.

</chris>