On 1999-01-27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Travis> said: >In order for pine to send your proper user-id, you will have to >login with the name you use on your provider. Pine will not allow >you to change the user-name side of your email address. This is >actually a good thing because it prevents spamming and such. >Besides, you shouldn't be using your system as root on a user style Thank you! Up to now I hadn't been that concerned about the dangers of working as root; I've tried several different installs of Red Hat 5.0 to see what works best -- yet now I should begin to practice better user habits. I wasn't aware of Pine's caution, for the reasons you mention, of the user-id side of my email address and root-user style... >... Simply create yourself an account that has the username that >is the same as the one on your provider, and your current problem >will go away. I've done this before and will promptly do so again. Oh, well. I made a successful ppp *module*... you may be pleased to note. <BG> Jerry Internet Montana -*- Without mistakes, learning loses its challenge. Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Registered To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
