On 2013-01-11, David S. <dav...@net.invalid> wrote:
>
> It is about Alpine 2.02 for linux, installed on my laptop.
>
> Whatever I do in a config file, alpine always creates my email address
> in a From: header by inserting my shell account login-id in front of
> @
domain.com
I do not see anything either. You could always set up say postfix to do
address rewriting and to alter the From address alpine write in with the
one you really want. But I agree that is a kludge. I suspect someone
will know how to put in the return address you really want.
I thought alpine might grab it from either the USER or the LOGNAME
environment variable, so you could do
(export USER=remotename;alpine)
but that does not work so I am not sure where it gets your name from.
.
>
> 1. I tried user-id=my_preferred_userid for Yahoo email account, but the
> 'user-id' seems to be an option only in PC-Pine, so it didn't help.
>
> 2. I edited a From: header in customized-headers for a composer, but it
> didn't help; the mailer still inserts my shell login-id in front of
> @domain.
>
> And I can't see any option in /etc/pine.conf which will help over-ride a
> default user-id in the 'From' header. Nor I can see any compile option
> which enables this.
>
> Please, is there a way in Alpine to use an email account with a user-id
> which differs from my shell login-id ?
>
> Or is Alpine an emailer primarily for use in remote shell accounts where
> one's login-id matches shell's provider email user-id ?
> If so, than using my Yahoo email address is out of question with Alpine.
>
> Thank you.
>