I usually write email on the Debian box here, for which I installed UUCP and
SMail, which works fine. I can change the From: line to whatever I like and my
provider still accepts and delivers the emails. So far, so good.
But there is a Mac here which communicates with my Linux box via Ethernet and
which I would also like to send mail from. I installed Internet Config and
MacSOUP and started reading mail. Worked fine. Then I send some email which
returned with an error message from my provider's MTA. It told me
the return-path of my message was wrong.
I assume what it means is the first line in an email's header which looks like:
>From cat.ping.de!tom
.
.
From: Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.
.
If my assumption is correct then MacSOUP generates a wrong header because
the first line looks like:
>From pobox.com!tadams
Now I wonder if I can configure SMail in such a way that it rewrites the first
>From line (aka Envelope?) to a format my provider likes?
Below is an example error message:
>From MAILER-DAEMON Mon Sep 7 08:51:14 1998
Return-Path: <real-tom>
Received: by cat.ping.de
via rmail from stdin
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101)
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:51:12 +0200 (CEST)
Received: (qmail 12284 invoked by uid 10); 6 Sep 1998 22:54:28 -0000
Date: 6 Sep 1998 22:54:28 -0000
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mail failed - invalid return-path
Status: RO
Content-Length: 1191
Lines: 31
Hi. This is the rmail program at lilly.ping.de.
I am afraid I can only accept messages that have a valid return-path
(or From_ line) pointing to an address in the .ping.de domain. This
is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
>From pobox.com!tadams Sun Sep 6 21:50:56 1998 remote from cat
Received: from [192.168.1.2] (really [192.168.1.2]) by cat.ping.de
via in.smtpd with smtp
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101)
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:50:56 +0200 (CEST)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xxxxxx xxxxxx)
Subject: xxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Adams)
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:50:53 +0200
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Organization: none
X-Mailer: MacSOUP D-2.3.1 (unregistered)
