[Mailman-Users] Changing "From" Field

Richard Barrett r.barrett at openinfo.co.uk
Fri Oct 24 19:08:46 CEST 2003


On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 05:38  pm, Staven Bruce wrote:

> We have a mailing list called 'Workshop_Information'. Messages to our 
> list
> members always come from 'Workshop_Information-admin at domain.com'. Does
> anyone know of a way I can change that alias so that all of the 
> messages can
> come from 'Workshop_Information at domain.com' ?

Is this so that bounce messages for failed deliveries can be 
distributed to the rest of the list subscribers?

> Can I just alter the
> /etc/aliases files? Is that all there is to it?
>

/etc/aliases is about delivery not constructing outbound messages; 
changing it will not achieve what you think you want.

> Staven Bruce
>
>  "I don't care if Ned Flanders is the nicest guy in the world. He's a 
> jerk -
> end of story."

Hey! He's my hero.

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