Subject: setting my own From: field

From: Ivan Shim <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 06:34:19 +0800

Is there a way for me to change the value of the From: header field?
I have been hunting through the manuals to no avail.
Please help.
Thank you.

Dr. Ivan Shim
[email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 09:42:24 -0400

> I have been hunting through the manuals to no avail.

    In your personal configuration, you may set the domain name (after
the '@') that will go out on your mail and news postings.  However, as
Pine comes out of the box, you may NOT change your userid (before the
'@').  This is deliberate.  However, Pine may be recompiled with a
switch set in one of the header files to allow changing all of the
From: header.  Many installations do not allow this, as they consider
it a security liability.  Talk to your help desk or system
administrator.  Without modification, "vanilla" Pine is purposely
designed to forbid what you want to do.

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