Re: Changing FROM header reccord in PINE 4.05

[anavarro vip eniac com]

On 29 Oct 98, at 18:04, dsb3 wrote:


> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 anavarro vip eniac com wrote:
> 
> >Has anybody been successful in changing the from header record in Pine. 
> >
> [snip]
> 
> >However, it continues to produce the same header anyway.
> >
> 
> which header are you looking at?  the message header or envelope header?
> 
The message header.

> If you want to send mail from a username who is not 'you' when you log in,
> the best thing I've found to do is to recompile PINE and pretend it's a
> hybrid of dos/linux.  That way you can specify both userid and domain in
> the config pages.  
>
 
Actually what I want is to always have the same header with 'my' username.

When using linux, I have different headers depending on the ISP I am 
connected at the moment. Moreover, some mail comes out as root which is 
a nono in many places such as REDHAT.

> To go one step further, you want to leave PINE alone and tweak your MTA
> (sendmail, smail, whatever) to rewrite the headers when they leave your
> system.
> 

I don't need to tweak the envelop headers. 

See the problem is that people refuse to use the replay-to header

> -dave
> 
Thanks a lot for your fast response.

Agustin

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