Subject: From:/Sender: message header question.

From: [email-masked] (Sunil Vallamkonda)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:22:48 -0700

Hello,

I looked at the www site for pine, but could get find info on the following.
I use pine a lot, so any info on this topic is appreciated.

>From pine, I know how to add a customized header such as: Reply-to:

But, my question is, how do I change the headers to customize, viz;

From:
Sender:

Thank you.

Sunil.

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:03:05 GMT

> But, my question is, how do I change the headers to customize, viz;

I don't think that it is possible to change the Sender header in
any version of Pine (does anyone know if that's true?).  However,
it is possible to change the From header in all versions of Pine.
In PC Pine, edit your the user-id and user-domain in your pinerc.
In Unix Pine, you need to either find a version on your system that
has been compiled with ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM or recompile pine
yourself.  Here's the strategy I use at my ISPs:

[1] Ask the sys admins if they will compile pine with
ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM.  If the ISP provides virtual domain hosting
then it is likely they will do this.

If [1] fails:  
[2] Post to a local news group at your ISP, e.g., isp.general, and
ask if anyone has a compiled version of pine with
ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM that they could make world executable.  This
worked at my best.com account.

If [1] and [2] fail:
[3] Compile pine yourself with ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM and then be a
good citizen and make it world executable and post to isp.general
that it is available for anyone to use.

Good luck,
Nancy

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