From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: user/e-mail name Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 07:56:41 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20040303075430.01ff0478@celine> References: <20040303074855.B8A553ACF@heisspf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040303074855.B8A553ACF@heisspf> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 03:48 PM 3/3/2004 +0800, Peter wrote: >Hi, > >In Slackware9.1 my user name is peter and my e-mail address is heisspf@isp.net > >Apparently mail I send arrives From: peter@isp.net. Therefore, when the >recipient makes a "reply" the mail bounces since naturally peter@isp.net is >not found. > >My mail program is exmh. > >Can that be corrected w/o changing my user name? Richard and Hal gave you good technical replies, but they missed one possibility. This is a classic case for the use of a Reply-to: header in your messages. You might want to see either if exmh supports that option, or if you can substirute a different MUA that does. - 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