Very Computer

Hi,

We have incoming mail being aliased correctly to users, but when that
user with pine reply's or composes a new email, the users ID is used as
the prefix for our domain rather than thier email name. Any idea where I
should look to rectify this?

userID  webmon
email   webMonitor

/etc/aliases

webMonitor:     webmon

So this is fine for incoming mail but outgoing email will use

webmon when it should use webMonitor.

M
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If you run pine locally on the same machine as the mail server, it
probably, as most e-mail clients, use the login name as the default
sender address, since this how 99.9% of systems out are traditionally
set up.  Most programs, however (well, I can't think of any
exceptions, except maybe "mail" :) ), allow the user to configure his
e-mail address somewhere.  Probably Pine does, too.  So, you should
look for it in the mail client documentation, or just look through
Pine's configuration options.

Staffan

Here is some stuff on changing your a users from address.
I believe that sendmail
requires you to configure both the alias and generics to
enable aliasing both ways.

Hope this helps, James.

cd /usr/src/etc/sendmail
add
  FEATURE(genericstable, `hash /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl
  GENERICS_DOMAIN(`yourmachine.isp.com')dnl
  FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
to freebsd.mc

make

mv freebsd.cf /etc/sendmail.cf

create the /etc/mail/genericstable file.  Here's an example

makemap hash /etc/mail/genericstable </etc/mail/genericstable

The database file will be named genericstable.db

Notes:
The genericstable feature provides the database format and location of the
genericstable file.
GENERICS_DOMAIN is the domain that the genericstable is allowed to work with
(local isn't assumed :-P)
masquerade_envelope masquerades the envelope.  Otherwise the original will
still be listed on the envelope's from.
mv freebsd.cf /etc/sendmail.cf will copy over your original sendmail.cf

You can do this is you are using version 4 of Pine (3.96 won't do it)
but it's not as easy as it is in something like Netscape or Outlook.
You have to specify a new From: header in Setup->Config

You'll see a line that looks like this:

customized-hdrs          = <No Value Set>

Go to that line, hit 'C' for Change, and type the following:

Obviously, replace "MyDomain" with your actual domain. You have to include
the "From: " -- what you're actually doing is replacing the default From:
mail header with a custom one.

 --Dan

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