Subject: from!

From: Iztok Polanic <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 13:20:42 +0200 (MET DST)

Hello !!!

Can I change the From: line. Iwant to change my username from 'foo' to
'foobar'.

	Ex:
		Before:		[email-masked]
		After:		[email-masked]

Tnx.

								Bye.

    	xxxxxx                           //////
    	xx  xx                          ( o o )
    	xx  xx        /------------oOO-----O-----OOo------------\
     	 xxxx         |           From: Iztok Polanic           |
    	xx  xx        |  E-mail: [email-masked]  |
       xx    xx       |   WWW: http://www2.arnes.si/~ssdipola   |
      xx      xx      \-----------------------------------------/

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From: Darren Wyn Rees <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 14:48:10 GMT

>Can I change the From: line. Iwant to change my username from 'foo' to

Yes. Load Pine.  Goto to the setup/config page.  It's one of the first
few parameters in the list there.
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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 11:52:07 -0500 (CDT)

>From: Darren Wyn Rees <[email-masked]>
>Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 14:48:10 GMT

>Yes. Load Pine. Goto to the setup/config page. It's one of the first few
>parameters in the list there.

Wrong! Setting a value in personal-name overrides the full-name token that
would normally be derived from /etc/passwd.

In the portion of the message that you had cut out, he indicated that he really
wanted to changed the mailbox name in the From. FOR THE 2,438,978,542ND TIME,
IT IS A COMPILE-TIME OPTION. BY DEFAULT, YOU CANNOT CHANGE From.

This is the last time this question will ever be asked. Fortunately, thanks to
the changes that Stefan has made to the list, postings will be restricted to
subscribers, and no one will be able to subscribe unless he has filed a
statement saying he has read the FAQs and understands that he will be shot if
he posts one, but before the question is posted.

And, that he will be shot twice if he attempts to ask this one.