On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Peter wrote about, Re: Login Names:
> Thanks so much for your help. Nothing changed. I guess I have to change my
> user name from peter to pfheiss.
> Puzzling is that mail sent to peter@server reaches pfheiss@server
I dont think it should be puzzeling at all, peter's mail is
possably forwarded by an alias in /etc/aliases like i showed you.
As to the FROM filed, some mailer wont allow you to change it for security
reasons, what you can do in ALL mailers is set an ReplyToo header, or use
the REPLYTO variable in your shell enviroment.
export REPLYTO=pfheiss@server
The above works with elm i belive pine allows you to set that in its
configure page.
>
> Regards
>
> >> Ok, my Linux login name is peter and my e-mail login mail is
> >> pfheiss. Now if I
> >> receive mail fetchmail wants to put it to pfheiss and since it
> >> can not find
> >> the name it bounces causing quite some annoyances like cutting me
> >> off from
> >> this list. I put pfheiss now into /etc/passwd and all the mail
> >> flows nicely
> >> now to /var/spool/mail/pfheiss.
> >> If I send mail, pine and exmh will put FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> instead of
> >> FROM:pfheiss@.... unless I edit in /etc/passwd peter to ....false.
> >> May be I made something wrong somewhere.
> >
>
> > I am still pretty new to Linux, so bear with me if this is completely wrong
> >but can't you just create a pfheiss account and forward all of the email
> >from it to peter?
>
> That's what I did, see above. When the mail is in I have to copy
> /var/spool/mail/pfheiss to ./peter. It works yet it's just not right.
> -
>
> >I belive i have pointed the origanal question asker to the following before;
> >
> >edit /etc/aliases and add;
> >
> >peter: pfheiss
> >
> >Do not forget to run 'newaliases' after the change.
>
> --
> That's all in place.
>
>
> >Why not create a file called .fetchmailrc into your ~/peter directory
> >and put in it the following:
> >
> >defaults proto POP3 fetchall nokeep
> >poll pop3.server.com
> > user pfheiss is peter pass secret
> >
> >where pop3.server.com is the actual pop3 server of your ISP,
> >and secret is your actual mail password for your ISP.
>
> I had that from the beginning.
>
> >Now, I'm not familiar with pine (go mutt!) but I was able to tell mutt
> >(in my .muttrc file) to use my actual ISP address with the statement:
> >
> >'set realname'
> >
> >and I ensured sendmail wouldn't get confused by adding another line:
> >
> >set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] -oi -oem"
> >
> >where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my actual email address.
> >
> >I hope this helped!
> * Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> No it did not. Thanks anyhow
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
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