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Date:      Sat, 19 Apr 1997 19:34:43 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To:        Sonya and Jeffrey Metcalf <metcalf@snet.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Quest? -- Changing "From:" field from sent mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970419193338.1129A-100000@acp.qiv.com>
In-Reply-To: <33594FCB.BAC@snet.net>

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-- Jay

On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Sonya and Jeffrey Metcalf wrote:

->Hello,
->
->I would like to use the standard mail command under FreeBSD to send 
->mail and then use popclient to retrieve e-mail from my ISP's POP3
->server.  Popclient works great.  However, when I send mail from the
->command line, the return address is listed (as I understand it should)
->as the hostname I configured under sysconfig.  This is a fabricated
->hostname and my ISP won't recognize it.  Hence the mail I send cannot
->be properly responded to by my recipients.  So my question is, can
->I configure sendmail in some way that it always lists the response
->address of all the mail from all my users as "metcalf@snet.net"
->rather than "jeff@dane.snet.net" or "sonya@dane.snet.net", etc.?
->
->Any help is greatly appreciated.
->
->JM
->-- 
->Sonya and Jeffrey Metcalf
->metcalf@snet.net
->
->http://ruddles.stat.uconn.edu/~jeff
->




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