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Subject: Re: From address problems
From: Jeff Welch <jwelch @ cutter . com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:52:14 -0700
To: Jeffrey Goldberg <J . Goldberg @ Cranfield . ac . uk>, "Christopher S. Keiser" <keiser @ vanyo . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM

Try making the first line in the body of your message

From: list-owner@vanyo.com

followed by a blank line, then the rest of your message.  This should allow
you to customize the From: info. and override the default.

Jeff

At 04:01 AM 10/14/98 +0100, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Christopher S. Keiser wrote:
>
>> When list members receive an email from the list, the from address is the
>> person who sent the email (i.e. keiser@vanyo.com).  My bosses want it to
the
>> list as the from address (i.e. list-owner@vanyo.com).
>
>This is an odd request.  You (or your boss) really want the mail to be
>from the list owner?  Is the purpose to anonymize (yuck, what an ugly
>word) postings?  If so, you will need to do a little more than just
>change the from line.  You will need drop out lots of other headers.  See
>the mailing list archives for a discussion of anonymizing lists.
>
>Ah, I see a possible case where you might want what you have asked for.
>If have an announcements only list (moderated or postings allowed
>from just a few people) then you might want to all message to the
>list appear to be from some non-natural person.
>
>Hmmm.  I think you will have to hack the code for this.  It shouldn't
>be hard, but I don't think that there is a simple configuration for this.
>
>-j
>
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>
>
>

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