Re: Help with using ISP name for email
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jason Ish wrote: To fix this I have starting using pine, I start it using sudo as user jbi130 on my home system but these becomes a pain (as far as file permissions) are concerned when add folders and deleting stuff and so on. Is there a better way to go about this. I use fetchmail ro retrieve from Thanks for any help. Jason Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Jason, I see you've received other replies, but I think it is as simple as setting up pine to send the from: you want. The following is from the section in the config menu for pine which should do what you wish. [ ] use-sender-not-x-sender [ ] use-subshell-for-suspend initial-keystroke-list = No Value Set default-composer-hdrs= No Value Set customized-hdrs = From: Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ If this isn't doing what it should let me know so I can play with my configs a little more too. :-) Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Murphy's Fifth Law: If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help with using ISP name for email
Jason Ish writes: I connect to the internet using my school PPP account which gives me a user name not very close to my real name and chose to use my first name to logon to my personal linux box. I would like to send email but have it come from my school email name and not my localhost name. I have already managed (using smail/mailx) to have the @hostname field changed but mail still comes from jason rather than jbi130 (my email username). To fix this I have starting using pine, I start it using sudo as user jbi130 on my home system but these becomes a pain (as far as file permissions) are concerned when add folders and deleting stuff and so on. Is there a better way to go about this. I use fetchmail ro retrieve from my POP3 server but I don't think this has any effect on the sending of the mail. Would a better solution maybe to sart using mh and exmh? I like to send mail from home but want the return address to be valid so need to change the username to the username I have at the ISP (rather than the short username at home) and the host name to be the ISP rather than the home machine. The problem was that I didn't want this used on local mail. (No real reason to send myself mail, but I wanted to be able to do it!!!) I also wanted to be able to change both (differently) if I was sending mail to work. I spend a while delving into sendmail and came up with a kludge with sort of worked as far as local vs remote mail, but wasn't satisfactory. Then I found qmail which very easily allows you to do just these kind of things. Then I found I needn't have bothered at all! Since as I send mail from within Emacs all I have to do is have it automatically add the From line at the top! Richard (locally [EMAIL PROTECTED] remotely [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help with using ISP name for email
I connect to the internet using my school PPP account which gives me a user name not very close to my real name and chose to use my first name to logon to my personal linux box. I would like to send email but have it come from my school email name and not my localhost name. I have already managed (using smail/mailx) to have the @hostname field changed but mail still comes from jason rather than jbi130 (my email username). To fix this I have starting using pine, I start it using sudo as user jbi130 on my home system but these becomes a pain (as far as file permissions) are concerned when add folders and deleting stuff and so on. Is there a better way to go about this. I use fetchmail ro retrieve from my POP3 server but I don't think this has any effect on the sending of the mail. Would a better solution maybe to sart using mh and exmh? Thanks for any help. Jason Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
