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  • How to explcitly specify the sender with the .pinerc file?

    From Nicholas Saunders@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 7 13:00:37 2021
    I seem to have run into a situation where configuring the alpine e-mail client (formerly just pine) for a specific user seems to override some configuration so that the username for the operating system account is used from within alpine to determine who
    the e-mail is from.

    Why is this happening, generally?

    How is the sender explicitly configured?


    see also:

    https://askubuntu.com/q/1350439/847449

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  • From William Unruh@21:1/5 to Nicholas Saunders on Wed Jul 7 21:02:58 2021
    On 2021-07-07, Nicholas Saunders <saunders.nicholas@gmail.com> wrote:
    I seem to have run into a situation where configuring the alpine e-mail client (formerly just pine) for a specific user seems to override some configuration so that the username for the operating system account is used from within alpine to determine
    who the e-mail is from.

    Why is this happening, generally?

    How is the sender explicitly configured?


    see also:

    https://askubuntu.com/q/1350439/847449

    As far as I know, the pine/alpine name is the username of the account
    that invoked pine/alpine.

    There was a whole thread about this in this newsgroup about a month ago.

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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to Nicholas Saunders on Wed Jul 7 20:45:20 2021
    On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, Nicholas Saunders wrote:

    I seem to have run into a situation where configuring the alpine e-mail client (formerly just pine) for a specific user seems to override some configuration so that the username for the operating system account is
    used from within alpine to determine who the e-mail is from.

    Why is this happening, generally?

    How is the sender explicitly configured?

    Dear Nicholas,

    Alpine was designed to work in a place where the login name was the same
    as the part before the @ symbol. That worked well for the University of Washington at the time of their design, but it does not meet the needs of current users who are not loginn in to an account related to the email
    address they have. Because of that, you need to change the "From" header,
    and there is an excellent explanation of how to do that in Nancy McGough's
    page for Alpine that you can find here

    http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/changing_from/

    (the directios are for Pine, but they apply perfectly to Alpine)

    --
    Eduardo
    https://tinyurl.com/yc377wlh (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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  • From Nicholas Saunders@21:1/5 to Eduardo Chappa on Thu Jul 8 14:26:42 2021
    On Wednesday, 7 July 2021 at 19:45:23 UTC-7, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
    On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, Nicholas Saunders wrote:

    I seem to have run into a situation where configuring the alpine e-mail client (formerly just pine) for a specific user seems to override some configuration so that the username for the operating system account is
    used from within alpine to determine who the e-mail is from.

    Why is this happening, generally?

    How is the sender explicitly configured?
    Dear Nicholas,

    Alpine was designed to work in a place where the login name was the same
    as the part before the @ symbol. That worked well for the University of Washington at the time of their design, but it does not meet the needs of current users who are not loginn in to an account related to the email address they have. Because of that, you need to change the "From" header,
    and there is an excellent explanation of how to do that in Nancy McGough's page for Alpine that you can find here

    http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/changing_from/

    (the directios are for Pine, but they apply perfectly to Alpine)

    --
    Eduardo
    https://tinyurl.com/yc377wlh (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)


    ah, thanks I'll look into how to use roles. Good link.


    -Nick

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  • From Lucas Levrel@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 21 14:13:07 2021
    Le 7 juillet 2021, à 21:02, William Unruh a écrit :

    On 2021-07-07, Nicholas Saunders <saunders.nicholas@gmail.com> wrote:
    I seem to have run into a situation where configuring the alpine e-mail client (formerly just pine) for a specific user seems to override some configuration so that the username for the operating system account is used from within alpine to determine
    who the e-mail is from.

    Why is this happening, generally?

    How is the sender explicitly configured?


    see also:

    https://askubuntu.com/q/1350439/847449

    As far as I know, the pine/alpine name is the username of the account
    that invoked pine/alpine.

    There was a whole thread about this in this newsgroup about a month ago.



    See also thread "Setting ENVELOPE FROM" started on August 16. We still
    don't know how Alpine gets this information from the system :-)

    --
    LL

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