Subject: Re: sent-mail showing from name

From: [email-masked] (Jess C. Gehin)
Date: 12 Jun 1997 14:37:39 GMT

Paul O Bartlett ([email-masked]) wrote:
: On 11 Jun 1997, Jess C. Gehin wrote:
: 
: > I have compiled pine to allow me to set the From
: > line.  The problem now is that instead of showing
: > who the mail was sent to in the sent-mail folder it
: > shows my name which I assume that it is picking up
: > from the From: line.
: > 
: > Any ideas?
: 
:     Repetition number 1,296,708 of this Frequently Asked Question,
: which was asked just a couple of days ago.  Pine is doing what it is
: supposed to do unless you tell it to do otherwise.  Check the online
: help for index-format in your configuration.
: 

I guess with my current setup with a customized From line that pine
that the FROMTO field will never be able to figure out that I send
the message and that it should show the To: field.  I have set
the From field to [email-masked] whereas my real address on the 
machine which I run pine is [email-masked].

Perhaps I should just leave the From line alone and only set
Reply-To:

Jess
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  Jess C. Gehin                                                        
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From: [email-masked] (Mike Reid )
Date: 16 Jun 1997 00:37:04 GMT

Subject: Re: sent-mail showing from name
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Jess C. Gehin ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Paul O Bartlett ([email-masked]) wrote:
: : On 11 Jun 1997, Jess C. Gehin wrote:
: : 
: : > I have compiled pine to allow me to set the From
: : > line.  The problem now is that instead of showing
: : > who the mail was sent to in the sent-mail folder it
: : > shows my name which I assume that it is picking up
: : > from the From: line.
: : > 
: : > Any ideas?
: : 
: :     Repetition number 1,296,708 of this Frequently Asked Question,
.......

I managed to fix it up a bit, once I looked at the index-format info, as
suggested above. However, I think this is a (small) bug in Pine. If it
looked at the sender line, rather than the from line, then all would be
well...

What I did was to set: 

index-format = STATUS MSGNO DATE FROM(20%) TO(20%) SIZE SUBJECT(60%) 

Which produces a slighty squashed format. Here's one of my outgoing messages:
     6 Jun 10 Dr Mike Reid HMS          (1,101) Re: Meeting Wednesday
              ^^^^from     ^^^to                ^^^subject
	      
Mike Reid

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Reid )
Date: 16 Jun 1997 20:54:14 GMT

I got some extremely useful help from the pine team on this one (Thanks!). 

If you set the variable alt-addresses to be the mail alias that you used in
 the From line, then pine correctly recognizes you as the sender. 

Mike Reid