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

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Your reading in complications I didn't intend to imply. Basically, by adding a second account, my Windows-based mail client allows me to pick which From: line I want. But, on the other hand, I don't get a large legalise footer forced onto my emails, I can see that as being a reason to use a different mail server.

(I've actually set my home box up to act as a secure mail relay, so I can send mail through that, irrespective of the domain my machine is living in. I can add you to the access list, if you wish.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

By popping my mail home, and shelling in the rest of the time, I don't end up with the problem of copies of sent mail ending up all over the show (or of having to send myself copies). Which is one of the things I most keen to avoid: I'd like as much of my mail as possible to be as accessible as possible from anywhere.

And to be as simple-to-operate as possible. I can cope with PINE :)