Question about "from" line in outgoing mail

Question about "from" line in outgoing mail

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi all!
I am asking this message for John Boyer, as his outgoing mail in linux
right now says chpi@chpi.org and the address would be wrong if you tried
to reply to him using that address.
His username in his home directory is apparently chpi, but he wants his
outgoing mail to be from director@chpi.org. Is there a way he can fix this
without
having to change his username in his home directory to "director"?
Thanks.


Cheryl

Re: Question about "from" line in outgoing mail

[Cheryl Homiak]

Thanks. Yes, the program is pine.
Sorry I forgot to put that down.

Re: Question about "from" line in outgoing mail

[Mike Gorse]

Cheryl,

It would help to know which mail program he will be using.  For pine,
having the line
customized-hdrs=From:"John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>
should do the trick.  If he is using some other mailer, then someone else
on the list should be able to help.

--Michael Gorse / ICQ:22583968 / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Hi all!
> I am asking this message for John Boyer, as his outgoing mail in linux
> right now says chpi@chpi.org and the address would be wrong if you tried
> to reply to him using that address.
> His username in his home directory is apparently chpi, but he wants his
> outgoing mail to be from director@chpi.org. Is there a way he can fix this
> without
> having to change his username in his home directory to "director"?
> Thanks.
>
>
> Cheryl
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Blinux-list mailing list
> Blinux-list@redhat.com
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>

Re: Question about "from" line in outgoing mail

[Andor Demarteau]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

 > Hi all!
 > I am asking this message for John Boyer, as his outgoing mail in linux
 > right now says chpi@chpi.org and the address would be wrong if you tried
 > to reply to him using that address.
 > His username in his home directory is apparently chpi, but he wants his
 > outgoing mail to be from director@chpi.org. Is there a way he can fix this
 > without
 > having to change his username in his home directory to "director"?
incoming seems then to be okay.
There's a file called /etc/email-addresses
each line is in the format <username>:<outgoing addresss>
At least under debian runnign exim it's just this:
1. edit this file
2. uncomment the rewrite-rule in the exim.conf

With other mta's you should've something simular or another way of
rewriting mail-addresses upon sending.
I'ts not a trivial way ;)

 > Thanks.
 > 
 > 
 > Cheryl
 > 
 > 
 > 
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Re: Question about "from" line in outgoing mail

[Andor Demarteau]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Mike Gorse wrote:

 > Cheryl,
 > 
 > It would help to know which mail program he will be using.  For pine,
 > having the line
 > customized-hdrs=From:"John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>
uhm yes, but he might need to be privilidge user for his mta, ot sure.
 > should do the trick.  If he is using some other mailer, then someone else
 > on the list should be able to help.
 > 
 > --Michael Gorse / ICQ:22583968 / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org
 > 
 > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi all!
 > > I am asking this message for John Boyer, as his outgoing mail in linux
 > > right now says chpi@chpi.org and the address would be wrong if you tried
 > > to reply to him using that address.
 > > His username in his home directory is apparently chpi, but he wants his
 > > outgoing mail to be from director@chpi.org. Is there a way he can fix this
 > > without
 > > having to change his username in his home directory to "director"?
 > > Thanks.
 > >
 > >
 > > Cheryl
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > _______________________________________________
 > > Blinux-list mailing list
 > > Blinux-list@redhat.com
 > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
 > >
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > _______________________________________________
 > Blinux-list mailing list
 > Blinux-list@redhat.com
 > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
 > 

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Uisce Beatha (water of live/health)
-----------
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