Ray Olszewski wrote:
At 09:47 AM 3/7/2004 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
[...]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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