From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 0: 1:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rock.ghis.net (rock.ghis.net [209.222.164.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5C237B698 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:01:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from luna.osd.bsdi.com (postfix@1Cust72.tnt3.beaverton.or.da.uu.net [63.21.224.72]) by rock.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA49649; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by luna.osd.bsdi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 97BF83175; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:01:46 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: "Caleb J. Land" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Return mail address configuration Message-ID: <20000729000146.A34214@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Reply-To: jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com References: <20000729121358.A15806@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000729121358.A15806@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:13:58PM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 at 12:13:58 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Caleb J. Land said on Jul 29, 2000 at 01:40:57: [snip..] > > Now the punch line: how do I configure pine (or the whichever > > piece of software I have to configure) to make my return address > > into my real mail address (bokonon@rochester.rr.com)? I've read man > > pages and web pages to no avail. > > With pine, you'll need to recompile to allow it to set the From: > header -- I think by default it doesn't allow that, but there's an > option somewhere in the config file to allow it which you should > turn on before recompiling. Then in your pine Setup -> Config menu, > go to the "default-composer-headers" item and add a > From: bokonon@rochester.rr.com > Alternatively, change your username on your local machine to bokonon > and set the "user domain" item in the pine config to rochester.rr.com > -- you can do that without recompiling. You don't need to recompile pine to do that. Read http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/changing_from/. You simply need to add a few things to your .pinerc (described on that page). - jim -- /* jim mock - BSDi - open source solutions division - jim@bsdi.com */ /* documentation manager - jim@FreeBSD.org - jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message