On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Marc Owen wrote:
> >I don't think youu need or want to configure linux to do this: you only
> >need to instruct your MUA (pine) how you want it to construct the
> >headers. Pine will use a user-domain it finds in
> >/usr/lib/pine.conf.fixed in preference to all else. See the doco for
> >pine, possibly at /usr/doc/pine*/tech-notes.txt :-)
> Hm... yes, that is a way I can do it, but then I'll need to make an account
> for each mail address I have?! They all have different domains. It appears
> to me that the 'mail account principal' is not yet properly implemented in
> linux (well, I guess that the fact that it's a network OS rather than a
> stand-alone one has something to do with it -- considering that it presumes
> that your domain is reachable (resolvable) from the outside). Maybe I can
> write smt for that (on the long run, heh). In meanwhile, does anyone have a
> better idea on how to implement different mailboxes (at different domains)
> in linux (using a ppp-connection)?
My thoughts are: Use fetchmail to pull the mail from whereever, use
procmail to filter your mail nicely, use pine to compose mail messages
/read mail.
>From the compose window of pine press <CTRL>R to get rich headers then
type the address you want to message to come from the the From/Reply-to
Fields. Remember you must still be in the header section for <CTRL>R to
work :)
--
Clint
PS: I use Pine 3.96
