Jason Ish writes: > I connect to the internet using my school PPP account which gives me a > user name not very close to my real name and chose to use my first name to > logon to my personal linux box. I would like to send email but have it > come from my school email name and not my localhost name. I have already > managed (using smail/mailx) to have the @hostname field changed but mail > still comes from jason rather than jbi130 (my email username). > > To fix this I have starting using pine, I start it using sudo as user > jbi130 on my home system but these becomes a pain (as far as file > permissions) are concerned when add folders and deleting stuff and so on. > > Is there a better way to go about this. I use fetchmail ro retrieve from > my POP3 server but I don't think this has any effect on the sending of the > mail. > Would a better solution maybe to sart using mh and exmh? >
I like to send mail from home but want the return address to be valid so need to change the username to the username I have at the ISP (rather than the short username at home) and the host name to be the ISP rather than the home machine. The problem was that I didn't want this used on local mail. (No real reason to send myself mail, but I wanted to be able to do it!!!) I also wanted to be able to change both (differently) if I was sending mail to work. I spend a while delving into sendmail and came up with a kludge with sort of worked as far as local vs remote mail, but wasn't satisfactory. Then I found qmail which very easily allows you to do just these kind of things. Then I found I needn't have bothered at all! Since as I send mail from within Emacs all I have to do is have it automatically add the "From" line at the top! Richard (locally [EMAIL PROTECTED] remotely [EMAIL PROTECTED])
