Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> My college has set up mailman so that list-owners
> (and I presume anyone else) has to post email
> from within the college system.
> I would prefer to send email from home, where I can use KMail,
> although it is very little trouble to ssh into my college account,
> and send email from there.
How do they check? IIRC Mailman doesn't have very sophisticated
authentication features. Many installations just look at the From line,
which you can change.
Thank you, you may well be right.
I shall check that.
I'm wondering if there is some simple way in KMail
of changing the From: address in a one-off way,
I mean so that most email comes from a default address,
but one can give an alternative address if one wishes.
As far as I can see, the From: address is set
as part of the users "Identity".
I suppose one could have a second KMail account
with a different Identity, but that would be cumbersome.
But first I will check if the college mailman
does just look at the From: address, as you suggest.
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