On Tue, 07 Jul 2009, Vikas Rawal wrote: > On my laptop, I use mutt with postfix for sending e-mails, and fetchmail for > receiving them. Postfix is setup to relay mails through gmail. I am the only > user on the computer and all mails originating from the computer are sent > from my account. > > A limitation of the present setup is that it sends e-mail only from a > particular gmail account. I have, like most people these days, about four of > different e-mail accounts that I like to use for different purposes. I would > like to set up mutt and postfix in such a way that I could use these various > accounts for sending mail. I have set up mutt profiles for different > accounts. With that mutt is able to send mails with different "From:" > headers. > > But since all mails are passed on to postfix from my user account, they are > all treated as coming from u...@localhostname. Postfix ignores the From > address put by mutt, and treats it only as coming from > u...@localhostname.it then delivers the mail using only sasl password > authentication from one > account which has been set up to handle all general mail. The sasl password > authentication file also has details for other accounts but since postfix > does not treat the mail as coming from those account, it does not use the > sasl password authentication for them. In other words, since all mail is > treated as coming from u...@localhostname, they go through the same sasl > password authentication, and therefore are sent as coming from the > same sender account. > > I do not know if I have been able to make myself clear. I shall be more than > happy to clarify again if I have not been able to. > > I am appending my /etc/postfix/main.cf
When asking for help on this mailing list, please never paste your main.cf. Instead, as directed in DEBUG_README, paste the output of 'postconf -n'. > I shall be happy to provide (samples of) other configuration files, if > necessary. > > I shall be grateful if anyone could point me to a useful guide on the issue. Without really looking at your main.cf parameters, I suspect your "problem" has nothing to do with Postfix, and is due to an incomplete mutt configuration. See the mutt manual for use_envelope_from if you are using a recent version; otherwise see envelope_from. Also see: http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Header All follow-ups should probably go to the mutt mailing list. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
