Subject: Username?

From: Ming Luo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 20:51:41 -0500 (EST)

I have an free email account in usa.net.  The username there is different
from the one on my ISP unix system.  I can set the "smtp" of my pine to
mail.netaddress.com, which is the mail server of usa.net, but the other
party can't reply my mail because of the difference of the usernames. 

I checked the configuration settings in pine and didn't find a way to
change my username appeared on my email sending through usa.net.  Could
somebody enlighten me how I may solve this problem? 

Thanks in advance.

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 03 Dec 1997 07:18:24 +0100

>>>>> "ML" == Ming Luo <[email-masked]> writes:

 ML> I have an free email account in usa.net.  The username there is
 ML> different from the one on my ISP unix system.  I can set the
 ML> "smtp" of my pine to mail.netaddress.com, which is the mail
 ML> server of usa.net, but the other party can't reply my mail
 ML> because of the difference of the usernames.

 ML> I checked the configuration settings in pine and didn't find a
 ML> way to change my username appeared on my email sending through
 ML> usa.net.  Could somebody enlighten me how I may solve this
 ML> problem?

Hi,

is this a FAQ by now? Must be for sure. You can set the 'Reply-To:'
address in the pine config:

s c Ctrl-w "customize" a "Reply-To: <your-address>" Return

All right, you can't change the From: Line unless you recompile pine
allowing this change ...

hth, norbert

PS to Robin: I know, there are hundred *better* ways of dealing with
it :-)

-- 
Norbert Koch
a rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing!

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From: "Paul E. Yahnig" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 08:21:20 -0500 (EST)

Has anyone run pine under digital unix 4.0.  I am running it now on Digital
Unix 3.2, but want to make sure that it will be okay on 4 before I change 
over.
Thanks,
Paul Yahnig

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Paul E. Yahnig                                  [email-masked]
Kean College of New Jersey                      [email-masked]
Office of Computer and Information Services     http://www.kean.edu/~pyahnig

"Off the keyboard, thru the router, past the hub, over the bridge,
down the line, ....nothing but net!"

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 03 Dec 1997 18:36:03 +0100

>> "NK" == Norbert Koch <[email-masked]> writes:

NK> is this a FAQ by now?

It's always been one...

NK> Must be for sure. You can set the 'Reply-To:' address in the pine
NK> config:[...]  PS to Robin: I know, there are hundred *better* ways
NK> of dealing with it :-)

Ummm... no smiley here - I cannot find the right docs now, but there
are *many* things that are better than setting a reply-to. There's
nothing wrong with changing the from-line for legitimate reasons (I do
it, too, because my login-account runs VMS->no procmail). AFAIK, Pine4 
will provide an easier solution - right?

Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
What the world needs now is killfiles that actually kill.