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In article <BUZZ.92Nov18091440@lion.bear.com> buzz@bear.com (Buzz Moschetti) writes:

   In article <VAITKUS.92Nov16081050@ceres.lexmark.com> vaitkus@ceres.lexmark.com (Keith Vaitkus) writes:

      Could some kind soul tell me how I would change the From: field in
      the header? My company has one and only one address for employees --
      It is fixed, and is not related to what machine we post from. However
      whenever I post with gnus, it makes my From: address equal to the 
      machine I am posting from -- Any mail people send to this address
      will be bounced! since it is not the official company address. *sigh*

   It's not the "From:" header you want to change -- it's "Reply-to:".  Put
   this in your ~/.emacs:

     (setq mail-default-reply-to "vaitkus@ceres.lexmark.com (Keith Vaitkus)")

I'm not sure what this will do. mail-default-reply-to is a variable in
mh-e.el. I grepped for it on $EMACS/lisp/rmail*.el, but didn't find it. 

Here's an excerpt from the gnus manual that I think answers the question:

File: gnus  Node: GENERICFROM, Prev: Domain, Up: Environment, Next: GENERICPATH

GENERICFROM
-----------

  If the variable `gnus-use-generic-from' is non-`nil', the local host
name of your machine will not appear in the `From:' field of article
headers you post.  This is called the "GENERICFROM" feature in the Bnews
system.  This may be useful if there are many workstations connected to
each other in a local area network, and aliases service or automatic
forwarding of mail is supported between the workstations.

  To use the GENERICFROM, put the following code in `.emacs',
`site-init.el' or `default.el'.  If you are a system administrator and
are installing GNUS for other users, `site-init.el' is the best place to
define it because the definition is common to all users of the system
having the same domain and organization (*Note Domain and Organization:
Domain.).

     (setq gnus-use-generic-from t)

  As a special case of the GENERICFROM feature, if the variable
`gnus-use-generic-from' is a string, it is used as your domain instead
of the definition of the environment variable `DOMAINNAME' or the
variable `gnus-your-domain' (*Note Domain and Organization: Domain.).

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Paul Palmer
Department of Mathematics     	E-mail: palmerp@math.orst.edu
Kidder Hall 368
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4605