Re: [9fans] Mail with runbox

[Ori Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org>]

Upasname works the same in 9front.

On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 19:29:49 +0100, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> 
> i think you are better off emailing the 9front community. i can tell you how to do this using the labs distro (you just set the environment variable upasname), but 9front&rsquo;s email is based on the 9atom/coraid code which is rather different.
> 
> sorry not to be more help,
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   On 7 Jun 2025, at 4:11&#x202F;pm, plan6@room3420.net wrote:
>   
>   &#xFEFF;
>   Hello community :)
>   
>   Need some help. But first, my boring story.
>   
>   I've been using 9front for about 5 years and it's my primary OS, even at
>   work (I 'vncv' other laptops when I need something 9front can't afford).
>   I'm absolutely not a programmer or anything, just a very low level IT
>   working in education.
>   
>   Like said in the meme from "the office", "I understand NOTHING" from the
>   emails I read everyday from the 9front community, but I read them anyway
>   and learn things sometimes and I am very grateful for that.
>   
>   I like 9front the way it is and don't and won't never add or substract
>   anything from it.
>   I use zuke for music (thanks Sigrid), Mail for email, IRC to chat with
>   friends.
>   Acme and Sam, of course and Sigrid's ext4srv to connect to my second
>   harddrive (linux) on a lenovo x230 I carry everywhere with the most ugly
>   tplink wifi module scratched on it with velcro (I'm not good enough to
>   install firmwares).
>   
>   For like 2 or 3 years, I was unable to send emails from 9front for 2
>   reasons. First, Runbox (my email provider) doesn't use imap.runbox.com and
>   smtp.runbox.com but only mail.runbox.com and the sha key is the same for
>   imap and smtp (so no error message the first time you send an email).
>   Secondo, Runbox doesn't allow aliases for the sender and force the use of
>   the primary email. Using the "From: myrealaddress" at the beginning of the
>   email did the trick.
>   
>   I didn't try to modify remotemail or anything, just because I didn't need
>   to (If it ain't broken, don't fix it) and didn't unterstood why I should.
>   
>   But now, it doesn't work anymore (see the screenshot). I guess it's because
>   the From:myrealaddress isn't catched by Runbox and the sender is perceived
>   as being Glenda.
>   
>   I'm sure the solution is very simple, like just adding something to a conf
>   file to force the primary email and I hope someone will feel compassionate
>   enough to help.
>   
>   Just to justify the fact that I'm not lazy but just incompetent, remember
>   me as plan6, the guy who "copy-pasted" 900 irc lines on cat-v a few months
>   ago (I just wanted to save the chat), or the one who asked why sysupdating
>   9front took hours (because I didn't allow scrolling in the terminal).
>   
>   Anyway, thanks for reading. I am really proud and happy to be part of the
>   9front community, even if I'm on the periphery.
>   
>   screenshot: https://mega.nz/file/kwA0hahZ#O-XfJpKoEuj5cZtlYi-bp_--cYSqY0nXfjetgTAI8NA
>   
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