Re: user/e-mail name

Peter Gantner
2004-03-03T17:06:25Z

On Wednesday, the 3rd of March, Ray Olszewski thusly spake:

> 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.

Isn't that what the -f option to sendmail does? IIRC this sets the
From: field to the specified name.

I know you can set the command the client uses to send mail in
pinerc like this: sendmail-path=/usr/bin/sendmail -t -f my.realemail@isp.net
I'm sure similar is possible with mutt too.

It's still possible that the MTA munges or rejects this afterwards,
but it should be a good start.

hth,
Peter G.

PS: note that I'm a different Peter! :)

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