Subject: Changing address displayed in From line

From: Erik Johnson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:32:35 -0600 (CST)

I am running Pine on a Linux workstation.  When I send mail, however, the
address that the recipient sees in the "From" line is not the correct
address.  Pine uses my linux account name in the address, so that the
line looks like the following:

Erik Johnson <[email-masked]>

Instead of my actual address, like so:

Erik Johnson <[email-masked]>

I have specified a reply-to address, but I would like the recipient to see
the correct address in the "From" line, to avoid any confusion.  I don't
see a way to do this through the Config menu, how can I do it?

Thanks,

Erik
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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:51:06 -0800 (PST)

*** Erik Johnson ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

EJ> I have specified a reply-to address, but I would like the recipient to
EJ> see the correct address in the "From" line, to avoid any confusion.
EJ> I don't see a way to do this through the Config menu, how can I do it?

There are two ways to do it:

 - Thwe fast and easy way: Press M S C and set

   customized-hdrs = From: "Your Name" <[email-masked]>

   You are done! If you ever need to modify this value during composition,
   press ^R in the headers section of the message that you are composing,
   and you will be able to see the value and modify it.

 - or, you can use roles. Press M S R R to set up one. There's a explicit
   line where you can set the From: header.

The first method of changing the From header is the best way to do it when
you only need to change the current From header for another permanently.
If you need to switch the From header between different values in the same
session, consider using roles. You may also consider adding From: to the
list of default-composer-hdrs, in that way it will always be available to
be modified when you want to do so. If you do this, you will need to add
more headers to this variable, including To:, Cc:, Subject:, and others.

  I hope this helps you.

Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/