Re: user/e-mail name

[chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>]

Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 09:47 AM 3/7/2004 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> ray@comarre.com said:
>> > Intrinsically, the "user name" and the "e-mail name" need have 
>> nothing in
>> > common, on outgoing mail
>>
>> Then why do those stupid programs (exmh, pine, kmail) insist that my mail
>> comes from peter and not from heisspf?
>>
>> Where do they pick-up that peter?
> 
> 
> They get it from the userid you are logged in as, of course. Although, 
> as I said before, there is no ***intrinsic*** connection between a user 
> name and an e-mail name, in practice on Unix/Linux systems the two are 
> usually related ... since to receive mail on that system, you need 
> either a userid or an alias for the To: user name. So just about any 
> Linux-based e-mail client will *default* to using the current userid for 
> mail.
> 
> I don't recall offhand which Linux MUAs allow you to set the From: 
> address (or specify a Reply-To: address) that is different from your 
> current userid ... but that is simply an application issue that is up to 
> the individual program writer. But see below for more.

Howdy, Y'all:

  I am logged on as 'gelmce' and my ISP knows me as
gelmce-at-ameritech-dot-net.  I think this is shown to come from
chuck-at-gelm-dot-[org,net].  I am using:
Mozilla 1.4
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915
as a MUA.

HTH, Chuck

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