Re: How to change 'From' field

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From: Gary Morris
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:56

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In <1992Aug13.172522.17457@evb.com> mahesh@evb.com (B.G. Mahesh) writes:
>I want to change my return address depending upon
>whom I want to reply to. I have an alias 'reuse' set 
>up in my /etc/aliases and the mails are forwarded to me.
>When I reply to 'reuse' mails I want the return address
>to be 'reuse@evb.com' instead of mahesh@evb.com. How do I
>do this ?

Mush won't let you change your address in the 'From:' field like that.  You
can set the 'Reply-To:' field, which most mailers will recognize and use.

Put this in your .mushrc:

    my_hdr Reply-To: reuse@evb.com

--GaryM
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Gary Morris                     Internet: garym@telesoft.com
Ada Software Development        UUCP:     uunet!telesoft!garym
TeleSoft, San Diego, CA         Phone:    +1 619-457-2700

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!telesoft!garym
From: garym@telesoft.com (Gary Morris @pulsar)
Subject: Re: How to change 'From' field
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