On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

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> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:
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> > That "allow-changing-from"  seems to be missing from
> > pine 4.10.  I tried adding from to my custome headers,
> > but it has no effect it seems.  I guess I could change
> > my user name on this system and chown all my files to the
> > new name.  
> >   I'll take a look for that "feature, too.  Thanks
> > for your help. 
> > 
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> the allow-changing-from in pine 4.10 goes in the /usr/pkg/etc/pine.conf
> file.  Its entered as:
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> feature-list=l-allow-changing-from
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What does the "l-" do in that item?  I thought that after
adding that "allow-changing-form" to the /usr/pkg/pine.conf
file, I might see it in the pine setup/configuration menu,
but It wasn't there.

  Thanks, I finally got it working the way I wanted it.
First I made the changes to the /etc/pine.conf.fixed file 
by mistake. And that didn't work. Then I read the your letter
more carefully and saw that the file was /usr/pkg/etc/pine.conf.

Here is a summary of how to change the "From:" part of your
mail headers.

Edit .pinerc in your home directory like this:
_____________________________~/.pinerc____________________________________
# Only show these headers (by default) when composing messages
default-composer-hdrs=To:,
        Cc:,
        Attchmnt:,
        Subject:

# Add these customized headers (and possible default values) when composing
customized-hdrs=To:,
        Cc:,
        From:  robin5153@yahoo.com,
        Attachment:,
        Subject:
___________________________________snip_________________________

Then add "allow-changing-from" to /usr/pkg/pine.conf like this:

_________________/usr/pkg/pine.conf_______________________

# Default condition for all of the features is no-.
feature-list=enable-mail-check-cue,enable-suspend,expanded-view-of-addressbooks,
include-header-in-reply,include-text-in-reply,show-selected-in-boldface,signatur
e-at-bottom,allow-changing-from       

_______________________snip______________________________ 

All the features in the list seem to be on one line in
the pine.conf file.

  I suppose this is a rather obscure option because it
enables you forge email. You could send an email
and say you are someone else.

If someone were to forge an email from someone else,
How would you find out who actually sent the mail?

  

I looked into that "Roles" option, too.  That allows you
change header and signature info acording to whose mail
you are replying to or fowarding.  It won't affect an email
which isn't a reply or foward.

   Guy	

> > 		Guy
> > 
> > > 
> > > Manually add "allow-changing-from" to the feature-list in .pinerc,
> > > then you can add 'From: Guy ...' to the customized headers. You must
> > > already have a 'Reply-To:' there? There's also a new "roles" feature
> > > in pine-4.10; I'm not sure how that works. Allow-changing-from has
> > > been there for a long time, but documented only in the tech-notes.
> > > 
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Guy Santiglia  Quadra 610, 50 MHZ, NetBSD 1.4!
South Korea
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