I just was able to fix the "problem". In /etc/passwd I changed the first peter before the x to pfheiss. Before that I created a new user pfheiss with password, then in /etc/passwd I deleted pfheiss. Now the new pfheiss(peter) has the pfheiss password and all the files changed automatically to user pfheiss. I love that part. That simple yet it took me while to figure it. On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Peter wrote about, Re: Login Names: >> Thanks so much for your help. Nothing changed. I guess I have to change my >> user name from peter to pfheiss. >> Puzzling is that mail sent to peter@server reaches pfheiss@server >I dont think it should be puzzeling at all, peter's mail is >possably forwarded by an alias in /etc/aliases like i showed you. >As to the FROM filed, some mailer wont allow you to change it for security >reasons, what you can do in ALL mailers is set an ReplyToo header, or use >the REPLYTO variable in your shell enviroment. >export REPLYTO=pfheiss@server >The above works with elm i belive pine allows you to set that in its >configure page. > > Regards > > >> Ok, my Linux login name is peter and my e-mail login mail is > >> pfheiss. Now if I > >> receive mail fetchmail wants to put it to pfheiss and since it > >> can not find > >> the name it bounces causing quite some annoyances like cutting me > >> off from > >> this list. I put pfheiss now into /etc/passwd and all the mail > >> flows nicely > >> now to /var/spool/mail/pfheiss. > >> If I send mail, pine and exmh will put FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> instead of > >> FROM:pfheiss@.... unless I edit in /etc/passwd peter to ....false. > >> May be I made something wrong somewhere. > > > > > I am still pretty new to Linux, so bear with me if this is completely wrong > >but can't you just create a pfheiss account and forward all of the email > >from it to peter? > > That's what I did, see above. When the mail is in I have to copy > /var/spool/mail/pfheiss to ./peter. It works yet it's just not right. > - > > >I belive i have pointed the origanal question asker to the following before; > > > >edit /etc/aliases and add; > > > >peter: pfheiss > > > >Do not forget to run 'newaliases' after the change. > > -- > That's all in place. > > > >Why not create a file called .fetchmailrc into your ~/peter directory > >and put in it the following: > > > >defaults proto POP3 fetchall nokeep > >poll pop3.server.com > > user pfheiss is peter pass secret > > > >where pop3.server.com is the actual pop3 server of your ISP, > >and secret is your actual mail password for your ISP. > > I had that from the beginning. > > >Now, I'm not familiar with pine (go mutt!) but I was able to tell mutt > >(in my .muttrc file) to use my actual ISP address with the statement: > > > >'set realname' > > > >and I ensured sendmail wouldn't get confused by adding another line: > > > >set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oi -oem" > > > >where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my actual email address. > > > >I hope this helped! > * Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > No it did not. Thanks anyhow > > Regards > > Peter > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
