Re: sender line in outgoing mail
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Serge Rey wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:16:18AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > It has been pointed out to me that while my "from" line when sending with
> > Pine and exim on my debian system is correct, my sender line says "debian
> > userCherylHomiak chomiak@chartermi.net". Where is this "debian user"
> > coming fron and how do I get rid of it?
> > Thanks.
>
> i think "debian userCherylHomiak" is your login name on that system you
> can change it to something else with:
>
> usermod -l new_name
>
> see man usermod for more details
>
As well, chfn username, should work as well, being a little more
userfriendly.
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