From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 username is not desired e-mail source
From: cdevilbiss@charter.net
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Date: Sat,  3 Aug 2002 14:14:41 -0500
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Thanks for both of your suggestions.

Interestingly, the aliasmail and /mail/lib/fromfiles suggestion didn't
work for me; I probably should have mentioned that I am on a 3e
system, so maybe the following have changed in 4e.

 From my mail(1):
        Aliasmail
...
          Under the -f option, alias files
          listed in /mail/lib/fromfiles are consulted instead, and the
          domain part only of the expansion is printed.

and my /mail/lib/remotemail:
#!/bin/rc
shift
sender=$1
shift
addr=$1
shift
fd=`{/bin/upas/aliasmail -f $sender}
switch($fd){
case *.*
	;
case *
	fd=charter.net
}
exec /bin/upas/smtp -h $fd $addr $sender $*

So it looks like $sender in remotemail is guaranteed to be the
original $1 (my login name?).  The $upasname suggestion seems to have
worked like a charm (once I remembered to respawn Acme Mail so that it
would pick up a new /env).

Did 4e change the way remotemail works so /mail/lib/fromfiles is more
``powerful?''  Also, is /env/upasname documented anywhere or just in
the source?

Thanks again to both of you.

--
Colin DeVilbiss
cdevilbiss@charter.net