On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:21:20AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > The selection of the proper From: header for outgoing mail is the duty > of your mail user agent (MUA); the MUA may be Mutt, Gnus, Balsa, > Sylpheed, Thunderbird, etc. Read the documentation concerning > multiple send 'personas' or 'personalities'.
I saw your post on the mutt users list where it was advised to set the envelope_from in the MUA so the ISP wouldn't reject the mail. I think it should be the MTA's job. Imagine, everytime a user changed their MUA they would have to configure this everytime whereas if it was set in the MTA then it would only have to be done *once* by the system administrator. I was running Exim and it worked out of the box once you had answered the debconf questions correctly *and* entered the users in the /etc/email-addresses (I'm not sure if that is the correct name because I am now trying postfix, which incidentally gained me about 1.1M of disk space, and wiped all traces of exim off my hard disk.) file. It is self documenting. When I installed postfix guess what? Yep, my mail was rejected from my ISP because it was still showing [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] After a bit of reading of the copious documentation, I found in ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.gz what I was looking for and so I cd into /etc/postfix, created a file called generic with the following line: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and also added: smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic to /etc/postfix/main.cf as per instructions. Restarted postfix. Grumble grumble, "postconf -n" still showed "smtp_generic_maps =" i.e. nothing. Back to the documentation ... ahh ... in another completely separate document I found the postmap command. YES!!, so I issued a postmap /etc/postfix/generic and voila a generic.db file was created in the /etc/postfix directory. It was about this time I saw your post in mutt-users and the replys about setting envelope_from and thought 'strange, why would you set the same thing in two places, this aint Windows'. About this time I tested my email again, NO!!!, it was rejected! I thought lucky I saw your post to mutt-users and put: set use_envelope_from=yes set envelope_from_address="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" into my .muttrc and tested again and sure enough it worked. BUT I still wasn't satisfied, it felt like a hack for reasons I explained above. So I had a closer look at the rejected mail and it wasn't [EMAIL PROTECTED] it was seeing but, [EMAIL PROTECTED] AHHH!!! why didn't I see that, duh. So to cut a long story short :-) I deleted the /etc/postfix/generic.db file, put [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] into /etc/postfix/generic ran "postmap /etc/postfix/generic" then ran "postfix reload" (according to the documentation a "postfix stop" then "postfix start" does NOT reload the configuration. Commented out "set use_envelope_from=yes" and "set envelope_from_address="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"" from my .muttrc and gave it another test. YES IT WORKED!!! P.S. I have "alternates "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"" in my .muttrc but Its been in there since exim3. Also to get all the postfix documentation you have to install postfix-doc which installs the documentation under /usr/share/doc/postfix/ NOT /usr/share/doc/postfix-doc/. > The sorting of incoming mail for multiple users or multiple > personalities is the function of a mail delivery agent (MDA) such as > maildrop. Exim has no role to play with respect to incoming mail > which originates outside the LAN. Agreed. -- Chris. ====== " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
