Re: POP mail questions

[Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@is5.nyu.edu>]

>    What I get a problem is that some mail programs put my local machine's
> hostname (golgotha) into the message header thus making the message appear
> from/reply to "redwards@golgotha".  Of course, since that isn't in
> anyone's DNS any messages replied to will bounce.
> 
>    Would you or anyone know how I could implement a rule so that smail (or
> whatever program handles this sort of thing) would rewrite any outgoing
> messages to correct the "redwards@golgotha" to become
> "redwards@together.net" (together.net is of course my ISP)?
> 
>                           | Debian GNU/ __      o
>  Regards,                 |            / /     _  _  _  _  _ __  __
>  .                        |           / /__  / / / \// //_// \ \/ /
>  Randy                    |          /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/  /_/\_\
>  (redwards@together.net)  |      ...because lockups are for convicts...

What mail user agent are you using? If elm, you can put appropriate
"From:" header into the ~/.elm/elmheaders file, pine also allowes to
configure some custom headers, the same for mailx, etc.


Alex Y.

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