She stares at the screen, at the little words of green

[venta]

Does anyone know how to explain to PINE what email address you want your mail to appear to come from ?

By editing the .pinerc file, I've managed to get the domain-name part of the address set (thank you failmaster), but the part-before-the-@ seems to be stuck as my unix username. Changing the personal-name field in the .pinerc file doesn't help.

For curiosity value only, is it possible to set the domain name from within PINE's own config system ? It seems like it ought to be doable without editing the file directly, but I can't find any evidence of it.

In other news, The Calendar says today is the feast day of St Drogo, a patron of coffeehouse owners and a protector against "gravel" in the urine.

Which is nice. I had no idea that getting gravel in your urine was a risk, but if it is I damn well want to be protected from it.

Comments

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

In which case you use a tame SMTP server to connect to the mail server of the person you're sending the message *to*.

Unless you're also blocking user-mode outbound connections on port 25 from every machine venta might ever be able to use, security in email clients is completely pointless for this purpose if the person being protected has any means of performing their own authentication (or reading the fucking list of IP addresses in the fucking headers), and not good enough if they don't.

On my hired shell account I can set pretty much any header field to pretty much anything I like, but I have not yet been able to get rid of the X-Envelope-Sender: header, and I certainly can't change the first "received from" header which identifies my username on the actual machine.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Unless you're also blocking user-mode outbound connections on port 25 from every machine venta might ever be able to use

And if he can, I shall start to feel extremely victimised.

Not to mention paranoid.