On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
>
> As some of you know, I am transitioning from netscrape to mutt mua's.
>
> I am having some mail sending issues.
>
> The host on which the new mail system resides is bragi.private.network.
> The default exim and mutt installations passed this name onto the
> internet, whereupon intelligent mail servers rejected my mail, because
> private.network. is an unusable domain.
>
> I own the domain: helices.org , which is hosted elsewhere. I also have
> several other email addresses, all valid and I can receive mail using
> any of them. This particular network sits behind attbi.com cablemodem,
> and it is not practical to host a valid public domain here.
>
> I want to be able to change between email addresses from within mutt.
> How do I do that?
>
> Initially, I'd configured exim for this:
> local_domains = localhost:Bragi.private.network
>
> Now, I have this:
> local_domains = localhost:private.network
>
> For rewrites, I've tried several things; but, this is current:
>
> *@private.network ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
> {$value}fail} frFs
>
> *@Bragi.private.network ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
> {$value}fail} frFs
>
> In ~/.muttrc, I have these weird variables, _none_ of which make it into
> received email:
>
> set envelope_from=yes
> set from="Michael Zchleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> set realname="Michael Zchleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
>
> What do you think?
I already do a similar thing, but I forget about Exim rewriting
everything. I use the following in my .muttrc:
my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my_hdr From: Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
set use_from
That should take care of it all.
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