From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: user/e-mail name Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:47:46 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <414AF912.50701@gelm.net> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20040307072153.01ef1480@celine> Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20040307072153.01ef1480@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs