Subject: Problems with From address

From: "Mike Thompson <Mike Thompson"<[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:22:44 +0100 (BST)

Can anyone suggest how to fix the problem with the From address
exemplified on this mail? 
The personal name (whatever it is set to) gets duplicated, the
second time inside angular brackets. This means that various
mailers (including my version of pine) cannot reply to such a
mail, because they think the reply mailing address list is
improperly formed. 

I should add that the domain name (ic.ac.uk) is also set by me
and I've quelled lookups to the passwd file. I'm running Pine 4.21.

Thanks,    Mike Thompson

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:59:55 +0000 (GMT)

> and I've quelled lookups to the passwd file. I'm running Pine 4.21.

That is very bizarre. Here are some things that you can look at.

1] See if there is a pine.conf.fixed file on you system that is
   overriding part of your From setting. This often resides in
   /usr/local/lib but if it's not there look at `man pine' in
   the FILES section to see where it is on your system.

2] Try to set your From header some other way, e.g., using a role
   or using the customized-hdrs variable. I describe both of
   these, and a lot more about your From header, here

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

Good luck,
Let us know if you're able to solve the problem,
Nancy
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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 05:58:52 +0000 (GMT)

I just had another thought about what might be causing your
problem. Do you have your own email address in your Pine address
book? If so, Pine grabs that information when you compose a
message and uses it to expand your From header (as well as
expanding addresses in the To, Cc, Bcc, and Lcc headers). Take a
look at your address book listing for your own email address

 Nickname  :
 Fullname  :
 Fcc       :
 Comment   :
 Addresses :

and see if there's anything weird about the Fullname and
Addresses settings.

HTH,
Nancy