Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:01:46 -0700 From: Jim Mock <jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "Caleb J. Land" <bokonon@rochester.rr.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Return mail address configuration Message-ID: <20000729000146.A34214@luna.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000729121358.A15806@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:13:58PM %2B0530 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007290129560.18233-100000@deepthought.granfalloon.com> <20000729121358.A15806@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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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
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