Funnying the From (was: OT: Recommended news reader?)

[Mark Jackson]

Bert Hyman <bert at visi.com> writes:
> claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) wrote in
> news:10257t58fdgvi67 at corp.supernews.com: 
> 
> > I didn't know that "From:" *could* be customized through
> > common configurations.  Does anyone know how to set it
> > with trn(1)?  
> 
> Does "trn" still post through the external "Pnews" program? If so,
> you can edit your post before sending it to include a "From:" header
> of your liking and the server ->should accept it. 

Not that more than a handful of folks still use it, but:  the
OpenWindows newsreader xvnews respects both MAIL_ALIAS and DOMAIN
environment variables:  From: MAIL_ALIAS at DOMAIN.

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