On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:47:16PM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Matthew Theobalds wrote:
> > However... whilst pine was downloading and compiling, I hunted for
> > several hours to find out how to adjust the From setting in Mail, to no
> > avail. And pine is a little too full featured for some quick mails.
> >
> > Could someone please let the cat-out-of-the-bag and tell me how to do
> > it? Surely there is a simple setting in .mailrc ?
> 
> Try "~/.pinerc". You need to add `allow-changing-from' to the
> feature-list. See /usr/pkg/share/pine/tech-notes.txt.

I think you missed his point, Frederick. He wants to know how to
change the From: field when using BSD mail from the prompt.

Without the MTA-rewriting described in a previous email, Matthew, I
don't think it's possible to get mail to send out mail with a FQDN
in the return address. (Anyone want to correct me on that?)

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net