Help with using ISP name for email

[Richard Sharman <rsharman@magmacom.com>]

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 rs@sphere  remotely rsharman@magmacom.com)