Re: REQ: display and allow modifying From: header
From: Mark (woody@interactive.remove.this.net)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 10:13:42 -0600
In article <v5U1yYtg4hpV092yn@pp.kolumbus.fi>,
Jani.Patanen@pp.kolumbus.fi (Jani Patanen) said something like:
>In article <Pine.BSF.3.95.970108154146.21355A-100000@zap.io.org>,
>Chin Huang <cthuang@IO.ORG> wrote:
>>On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jani Patanen wrote:
>>> news articles I would like to have an easy way to modify my From:
>>> header when I want to.
>>> For example to put From: Jani.Patanen@pp.kolumbus.fi_REMOVE_TAIL
>>
>>In the %HOME%\yarn\config file, set
>>
>>user=Jani.Patanen
>>host=pp.kolumbus.fi_REMOVE_TAIL
>
>Yes, but then every mail would go out with my address as
>jani.patanen@pp.kolumbus.fi_REMOVE_TAIL
>
>I would like to be able to edit that string while composing a message.
>Same way as I can now edit To:, Subject: etc. fields while writing the
>message. That is, I would not like to use bogus (or correct) email
>address on every message and I would not like to quit yarn and change
>config every time I decide to use different form of address.
>
>-Jani
You could do what I do. I have a pair of config files, and a pair of batch
files that swap out the config files. When I read news, I use a modifide
From: line (see above). I get VERY paranoid, so I also modify the Reply-To:
header and the host name in the config so that my message ID does not
provide a computer-extractable name. I haven't gotten more than 3-4 UCEs
(unsolicited commercial emails) in a week since I did this. I used to get
more like 4-5 a day.
It's not the most elegant solution, and it does require that you exit and
reenter Yarn between mail and news, but since all my mailing lists are
sorted into pseudo-newsgroups, they get handled too. Now I just need to
hide my name on the listserv member lists :-)
--
Mark woody@interactive.net mw4j@andrew.cmu.edu
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