>fetchmail handles the translation with no problems. For outgoing mail, I 
>want to use the MAILUSER and MAILHOST environment variables so that replies 
>go to my univeristy email address. This works fine if I send messages via 
>qmail-inject, but my MUA (pine) invokes sendmail. ...

>It looks like qmail's sendmail does not obey the MAILUSER and MAILHOST 
>variables in the same way as qmail-inject. Is there any way to change the 
>user name which appears in my messages when using sendmail?

The "sendmail" program is just a wrapper around qmail-inject, and does
indeed look at those variables.  But it only looks at them if there
isn't already a From: line, and pine is a helpful program that puts a
From: line in messages it writes.

In your pinerc file, personal-name sets the name in parens, and
user-domain is analogous to MAILHOST.  I can't see any way to change
the user name, it doesn't look at USER or LOGNAME.


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