Re: rewriting the From: line in exim
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:11:55PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
| I have a stupid problem and would appreciate any help.
|
| My canonical e-mail address is andrew_perrin@unc.edu. But since incoming
| address is aperrin@email.unc.edu, pine and exim don't like to send mail
| out as From: andrew_perrin@unc.edu.
|
| Generally I don't care. But some mailing lists are getting picky about
| this, and won't let me post when coming from the "wrong" address.
|
| Can anyone offer advice on getting mail to come
| From: andrew_perrin@unc.edu, preferably at the exim level (so I can change
| MUAs with impunity)?
I don't know about pine, but with mutt I have :
my_hdr "From: dsh8290@rit.edu"
even though I am sending on one of the cs machines, my from header is
set.
An alternative, with exim, is to put your username in
/etc/email-addresses so it adjusts the From: for you.
-D
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