Ticket #459 (closed defect: duplicate)
alpine should respect ATHENA_USER as FROM address
Reported by: | adehnert | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
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Description
When you run Alpine on a machine where your local user is differently named from your Athena user, Alpine should somehow be configured to send mail from $ATHENA_USER@…, not $USER@…. Unfortunately, this seems mildly difficult, since Alpine doesn't appear to directly provide a way set the user part of the sender (and appears to use /etc/passwd or something, not $USER, to get username information).
You can sort of handle this by adding alt-addresses=$ATHENA_USER@… in the pinerc, and by adding a default role that sets the from address to $ATHENA_USER@… (see http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2009-January/001606.html). (This does seem somewhat kludgy, and will cause mail to/from $USER@… to appear to/from you.)
Dupe of #422.