On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Richard Menedetter wrote:
> I have the same problem, but no solution .... :(((
> It seems that the user part of the email address is allways the current
> user, and thet there's no way to change that :(
This is desirable. Imagine you're running an ISP and your
customers can simply change their e-mail names at will. Many
would believe they could send anonymous mail, and might be tempted
to send spam under an assumed name, which you, the administrator
would then have to deal with.
I was [EMAIL PROTECTED] for 8 years, so of course my main
Linux identity is stackman. I go by [EMAIL PROTECTED] now,
but since pine will always call me stackman, the *easiest* way to
use pine for arachne mail is simply to subscribe as
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now... there is at least one other option, if you're in an
X-session, you can open as many users' pines as you wish.
Let's say you're in an tom-dick-harry X-session, but you wish
to send some mail from pine using harry-dick-tom as the return
address. (obviously, you must have a user harry-dick-tom on
your machine)
First, create this file somewhere in your path:
(I call it 'xsu')
-----
#!/bin/bash
su $1 -c "xauth add $(xauth list $DISPLAY); xterm &"
-----
Make it executable with 'chmod a+x xsu', and then from any xterm,
you can do 'xsu harry-dick-tom' and his xterm will pop up as soon
as you've given his password. Type 'pine' there, and now you can
have both members' pines side by side. Using this trick, you can
have as many different members' applications running in a single
X-session as you want.
('xsu' by itself will prompt for password. Give root's password
and you have a root xterm)
I do this fairly often, so to avoid confusion, I give each
persona a different colored xterm. "News" is black text on white
background, "stackman" is wheat text on black, "ginger" is yellow
text on black, "root" is black text on light blue, etc.
This way I always know at a glance who's who. ;-)
Here's a screenshot having 4 different users opened at a time:
http://twovoyagers.com/devel/screenshot.png
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Steve Ackman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Metamorphosis Glassworks Page http://twovoyagers.com/metamorphosis
