Subject: Re: Manipulate the From: field

From: [email-masked] (Sylvain Robitaille)
Date: 18 Jun 1997 22:23:23 GMT

On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:19:37 -0700, Simon Kwong <[email-masked]>
wrote:

>Is there a way for administrator to force the "From" field to be the same
>as the "Reply-to" field??, instead direct maping from username@domain ???
>I tried to re-define the "From" field in the customize header option, but
>it did not work!!!
>
>Any advise would be highly appreciated!!

try either of the following in .pinerc:

# Sets domain part of From: and local addresses in outgoing mail.
user-domain=
# If "user-domain" not set, strips hostname in FROM address. (Unix only)
use-only-domain-name=

These can also be set globally in pine.conf or pine.conf.fixed.

I'm not entirely sure this will do what you want since the userid in your
Reply-To: address, (S.Kwong) is different than the userid in your From:
address, (simon).

What you would wind up with, assuming you send a message from bidsrv1.crm,
and that you've set user-domain=cdnair.ca, is
From: Simon Kwong <[email-masked]>

That might be acceptable if your mail host knows that simon = S.Kwong.

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Sylvain Robitaille                          [email-masked]

Assistant to the System Manager
Computing Services Department
Concordia University                          Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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