Re: user/e-mail name

2004-09-17 Thread chuck gelm
Ray Olszewski wrote: At 09:47 AM 3/7/2004 +0800, Peter H. wrote: [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Intrinsically, the "user name" and the "e-mail name" need have nothing in > common, on outgoing mail Then why do those stupid programs (exmh, pine, kmail) insist that my mail comes from peter and not

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-07 Thread Peter
Hi, I was finally able to tweak exmh to put "Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" automatically into the header of outgoing mail. I had to edit .mh_profile in an unusual way to be able to read /etc/nmh/components. That was never necessary in RedHat that exmh could not read that file. Regards -- Peter

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-07 Thread Peter H.
OK we can say then that in Linux an e-mail program will use the login name as the host name for e-mailing unless a program like sylpheed has it built-in not to do so or one takes special efforts to pinch a program not to do it. Which means the easiest way out is to use ones 'login name' as 'host

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-07 Thread pa3gcu
On Sunday 07 March 2004 16:46, Ray Olszewski wrote: > The man page for elm (found at the same site as above) says that it uses an > environmant variable "REPLYTO", so I infer it supports a Reply-To: header, > and "USER", which is described unclearly but may affect the From: header. I used to use t

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-07 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:47 AM 3/7/2004 +0800, Peter H. wrote: [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Intrinsically, the "user name" and the "e-mail name" need have nothing in > common, on outgoing mail Then why do those stupid programs (exmh, pine, kmail) insist that my mail comes from peter and not from heisspf? Where do

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-06 Thread Peter H.
Thanks Ray, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > using.. How *do* you get your mail? That is, what do you mean by "directly"? > I've been assuming (as have, I imagine, others) that you get your mail > through an ISP (or, as you now remind us, several ISPs) using POP May be my confusing answer on how I re

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-05 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:23 PM 3/5/2004 +0800, Peter H. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > It will only work if you have an account or an alias on your providers site > for heisspf. I do not have an account with my provider and get my mail directly even using different ISPs. Peter -- this addendum to your report is a

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-04 Thread Peter H.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > It will only work if you have an account or an alias on your providers site > for heisspf. I do not have an account with my provider and get my mail directly even using different ISPs. >> Now I add "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I presume that is a

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-04 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 04 March 2004 05:45, Peter wrote: > Thanks to all! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > First thing i would try is simply create a user account for heissp and > > add an alias in /etc/mail/aliases; > > Does not work. It will only work if you have an account or an alias on your providers sit

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-03 Thread Peter
Thanks to all! [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > First thing i would try is simply create a user account for heissp and add an > alias in /etc/mail/aliases; Does not work. Then I hacked around various files in /etc/nmh, all nothing doing. Now I add "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to the header in the mail

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-03 Thread Peter Gantner
On Wednesday, the 3rd of March, Ray Olszewski thusly spake: > At 03:48 PM 3/3/2004 +0800, Peter wrote: > >Hi, > > > >In Slackware9.1 my user name is peter and my e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Apparently mail I send arrives From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore, when the > >recipient makes

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-03 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:48 PM 3/3/2004 +0800, Peter wrote: Hi, In Slackware9.1 my user name is peter and my e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently mail I send arrives From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore, when the recipient makes a "reply" the mail bounces since naturally [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not found. My ma

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-03 Thread Hal MacArgle
This bounced of course; your return address.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: unknown user: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Greetings: Glad that some things, finally, go right... Re: your printer card arrival.. Re: usernames, etc.. Richard has already replied.. You're "suffering" with the same thing I have to fight e

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-03 Thread pa3gcu
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 15:05, pa3gcu wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 08:48, Peter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In Slackware9.1 my user name is peter and my e-mail address is > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Apparently mail I send arrives From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore, when the > > recipient make

Re: user/e-mail name

2004-03-03 Thread pa3gcu
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 08:48, Peter wrote: > Hi, > > In Slackware9.1 my user name is peter and my e-mail address is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Apparently mail I send arrives From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore, when the > recipient makes a "reply" the mail bounces since naturally [EMAIL PROTECTED] i

user/e-mail name

2004-03-02 Thread Peter
Hi, In Slackware9.1 my user name is peter and my e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently mail I send arrives From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore, when the recipient makes a "reply" the mail bounces since naturally [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not found. My mail program is exmh. Can that be corre