Hi all,
I'm connected to the Internet by a PPP modem line, and depend on a POP3
host "stud.uni-goettingen.de" for getting my mail. So far, I handled my
mail with Netscape, which directly contacted this host for sending and
receiving my mail, so Smail configuration was really of no concern.
Now I would like to switch to another mailer with more features, such as
PGP support, filters for sorting my mail, you name it. So I told
Smailconfig I'm an Internet site "deepthought" (my computer's name) and
would like to use the aforementioned "stud.uni-goettingen.de" as
smarthost. I set up fetchmail to get my mail once on startup.
My problem lies in getting my mail system to put "From: Stefan Baums
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" at the top of my outgoing mail. ("sbaums"
is the name of my POP3 account.)
Now, Netscape (internal movemail for getting mail, "localhost" as SMTP
host for outgoing mail), Mail(to), XMailTool, and Pine work fine. (This
message was sent by Pine.) But Mutt and Exmh have "From: Stefan Baums
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". ("stefan" is my user name at "deepthought".)
A perusal of Mutt and Exmh's documentation was unilluminating (to me). As
for Smail, I tried a line "from_field="From: Stefan Baums
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" in /etc/smail/config, but it had no
perceptible effect at all.
Any suggestions short of renaming my computer "stud.uni-goettingen.de"
(wouldn't that be problematic because this name exists already, anyway?)
and changing my username from "stefan" to "sbaums"?
Greetings,
Stefan
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Stefan Baums
Universitaet Goettingen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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