id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc fix_version see_also 459 alpine should respect ATHENA_USER as FROM address adehnert "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@mit.edu, not $USER@mit.edu. 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@mit.edu in the pinerc, and by adding a default role that sets the from address to $ATHENA_USER@mit.edu (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@mit.edu to appear to/from you.)" defect closed normal -- duplicate