Subject: Re: How to replace From: in setup of pine? (fwd)

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:30:50 -0700 (PDT)

This should answer any questions about Changing the From Header in Pine...

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:19:05 GMT
From: Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough <[email-masked]>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
Subject: Re: How to replace From: in setup of pine?

On 26 Apr 1999, Neall E. Doren <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 at 10:18pm, Adam Vardy <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > How about in 3.95?

I've got info about how to do this in 3.95 (and other versions) at:

 http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/changing_from/

Here's the outline of my page:

  * What is a From Header
  * Do Not Use a Forged or Bogus From Header
  * Good Reasons for Changing Your From Header
    * Getting an Email Address to Use in Public Forums and on Web Pages
  * Specifying Your Default From Header
    * Using the personal-name and user-domain Variables
    * Using the allow-changing-from Feature
  * Changing Your From Header On the Fly
    * Using Composer Headers
    * Using Roles
  * Changing Your From Header in Pine 3.96 and Earlier Versions
    * Unix Pine 3.96 (and Earlier)
    * PC-Pine 3.96 (and Earlier)
  * See Also

> > : The sysadmin can always override this, by putting
> > : "no-allow-changing-from" in the /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed file,
> > : though.  N.
> > 
> > If they do that, does that mean the from always stays, you can never mail 
> > with a different from?
> 
> Correct.  The sysadmin has ultimate control in this respect.  I'm not sure
> how many bother to disable this feature, though.  Of course, you could
> always modify the "C" source and bypass his/her override (or completely
> ignore reading /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed), but... well, you didn't
> hear me suggest that :).  

If you are using Pine 4.10, you can use a role to change your From 
header even if the sys admin has put no-allow-changing-from in
pine.conf.fixed.

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