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

[venta.livejournal.com]

When I was saying appears-to-be-from, I was meaning "thing that appears in the from header".

I was asking about actually changing the address in such a way that someone couldn't examine the headers and say "ah, but it was *actually* from username@nastynamefullofnumbers.com".

It's looking, however, like what I actually want to do is just change the from line after all. As I've mentioned, I'm a little bit vague about a lot of this and how it works.

[chrisvenus]

Ah, all the other headers are nothing to do with your e-mail address and just to do with the computer you have come from (assuming you are talking about things like the recevied headers). I can think of no way you could change these (without full access to the machine you are sending through) and no reason you would want to (since they are invisible to most and only really useful for stalking^wchecking where somebody came from if they are sending abuse, etc.

But yeah, as somebody who does this myself From line is all you need. :)