How to tell IP address of remote machine?

[Timothy Murphy]

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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