On Mar 26, J. LILLIBRIDGE wrote > I'm running Debian Linux at home. When I send e-mail out, I want to have > the From: header say [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've figured out how to get > nmsu.edu put in there (instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But my login here at > home is just jl. What is the best way to make sure the From: field > is adjusted? I'd rather not change my login name on my debian box > to jlillibr. I would want to have similar setups for other users. > I'm running smail version 3.2-3.
With some mail user agents, e.g. mutt (available from debian-non-US), you can add/modify arbitrary headers. E.g., on a laptop system, my account is "ray"; I have a "my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen)" in my .muttrc, and this setting gets used. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
