[Alpine-info] Username versus imap login

[Andrew Wright]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Asheesh Laroia wrote:


> It would be nice if Unix alpine supported setting User-Id; that way, I 

> wouldn't have to fiddle with roles to get my custom From: address.

>

> Not being able to set User-Id: interacts poorly with the "Use To as From in 

> Reply" feature.


Try setting "customized headers", like so:
 	customized-hdrs=From: "My Name" <me at mydomain.com>

If I understand your query correctly, this will achieve what you
would like without having to touch "roles" at all.

This option is available as "Customized Headers" in the Setup/Config
menu.  You may also need "enable-full-header-cmd" in the "feature-list"
in order to use/view this data.

Additionally, you will probably want to ensure that all of your
valid addresses are listed as alternates, as indicated earlier.


My understanding is that "user-id" was added to PC-pine merely as a
workaround for the lack of local meaningful userid info (especially
on Win95 + co), and doesn't actually provide any functionality that
isn't available in some way in Unix (al)pine.

Andrew.