Re: user/e-mail name

Peter H.
2004-03-05T07:23:25Z

pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl said:
> It will only work if you have an account or an alias on your providers site
> for heisspf.
I do not have an account with my provider and get my mail directly even using
different ISPs.

>> Now I add "From: heisspf@skyinet"

pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl said:
> I presume that is a typo on your part Peter as it is NOT a valid email
> address. I have tryed a test mail (or was it 2) cant remember to
> heisspf@skyinet.net and they have not come back, (as yet).

Surly a typo I left out the .net.
Both mails arrived.

The suggestion of Richard using Reply-to: is not accepted with exmh.

I remember now several years ago I had asked the same question what the user
name has to do with the e-mail name and did not get a satisfactory answer. I
then just changed my user name to my my e-mail address name and whenever I
changed my ISP I could keep the same name except last year the ISP did not
accept then pfheiss and I changed to heisspf and had to change my user name as
well. That was all in Red Hat.
Now in slackware I thought I had gotten away from this, apparently not. So on
with From: in the header.

Since the mail program sylpheed nicely incorporates with exmh I could use it
for sending mail. In sylpheed (Hal from HalTech listen) one can set-up several
accounts with different user names and same ISP or different ISPs and can
easily select which one to use to send mail with. The computer user name never
shows up and the mail arrives with the From: always the account one has chosen.

Regards
--
Peter