On 5/21/07, Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The server just uses whatever name was supplied on the From line.  Simply change your e-mail client to use a different name.

Vehement concurrance.  In my last message on this, I changed my
settings in Gmail, and sure enough, it showed up a 'El Kabong!'
(Quickdraw McGraw's superhero alter ego.  Goodness.  What a misspent
youth!)

>
> At 9:52 AM -0500 5/21/07, Anne Toal wrote
> >Hi everyone.
> >
> >A user wanted to post a message to a list and she wanted the name that
> >appeared next to the email address to be "The Office of ___" instead of
> >her real name. So I subscriber her to the list with
> >
> >Add listname [log in to unmask] Office of ___
> >
> >When she sent the mail, it appeared in everyone's mailbox as being from
> >her personal name, not The Office of ___. Can Exchange overwrite
> >Listserv's given name for email addresses that are in its own list of
> >users?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Anne
>
>
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