Re: How do I change my identity

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:30:03AM +0100, Benedict White wrote:
> I am using tin on arch, and have to say it looks good so far.
> 
> However I subscribe to groups where I would like to change my 
> identity. Basically I need to set my email address as something 
> other than the default.
> 
> I also can't seem to find good documentation on the internet. 
> Obviosly I am not looking in the right place, but where should I 
> look?

[tin(5)]
[...]
|    /etc/tin/attributes
|    ${TIN_HOMEDIR-"$HOME"}/.tin/attributes
|
|           The group attributes files may be used to override some  global
|           settings  from  ${TIN_HOMEDIR-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc on a per group
|           basis. Order is important as last match counts; this allows  to
|           refine   attributes   for   narrowed   scopes.   Note that  the
|           scope=<grouplist> line has to be specified before the attributes
|           are specified for that list. All attributes are set to a reason-
|           able default so you only have to specify the attribute that  you
|           want  to  change.  All  toggle  attributes are set by specifying
|           ON/OFF.  Otherwise, they function exactly as their global equiv-
|           alents. The following group attributes are available:
|
|           scope  This  changes  the list of groups to which the attributes
|                  that follow will be applied. See  the  section NEWSGROUP
|                  LISTS & WILDCARDS in tin(1) for the types of pattern that
|                  can be used here.
[...]
|           from   Identical to the tinrc variable mail_address

e.g:
	scope=*,!de.*
	from=Foo Bar <[email protected]>

        scope=de.*
        from=Foo Bar <[email protected]>

urs
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