Subject: changing X-sender in header

From: Mike Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:48:28 -0500 (CDT)

I'm attempting to signoff from a mailing list and I'm having a problem.
The computer I'm subscribed from has two names, and I'm subscribed under
one of those names.  When I change my user-domain to the name I'm
subscribed under, you'd think the listserv program would let me signoff.
It doesn't.  The reason, apparently, is that there is another line in the
header called x-sender that gives the other name of the computer.
Listserv notices this, ignores the From: field, and tells me that I'm not
subscribed, so I can't possibly signoff!

Is there any way to make it so that I can force Pine to either leave off
x-sender (and sender), or to include the address I want in the x-sender
field?

It seems easy enough but I haven't been able to figure it out.

Thanks much,

Mike

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:30:42 -0500 (CDT)

>From: Mike Miller <[email-masked]>
>Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:48:28 -0500 (CDT)

>I'm attempting to signoff from a mailing list and I'm having a problem.  The
>computer I'm subscribed from has two names, and I'm subscribed under one of
>those names.  When I change my user-domain to the name I'm subscribed under,
>you'd think the listserv program would let me signoff.  It doesn't.

This is a job for the list owner. If the server really is LISTSERV, typically
the list owner's alias is listname-request. If the server is Majordomo or
ListProc, it's owner-listname. (Majordomo often uses listname-request as an
alias to send automated commands to the server.) Some servers improperly use
listname-owner.

Look at the Sender header the next time you get a message from the list. Often,
that's set to the list owner alias.

>The reason, apparently, is that there is another line in the header called
>x-sender that gives the other name of the computer.  Listserv notices this,
>ignores the From: field, and tells me that I'm not subscribed, so I can't
>possibly signoff!

>x-sender (and sender), or to include the address I want in the x-sender field?

That's added when it's been handed off to the Mail Transport Agent. It hasn't
been added by pine.

>It seems easy enough but I haven't been able to figure it out.

You'd need privileges over the configuration of the MTA.