Re: On Behalf Of . . .

[Guus]

Problem solved!

It's a known bug in Netscape 4.6 etc. for unix.

Workaround is in changing the prefs:

  exit netscape first, because it writes the preferences on exit
  
  cd $HOME/.netscape
  echo 'user_pref(mail.suppress_sender_header, true); '  preferences.js
  echo 'user_pref(mail.suppress_sender_header, true); '  liprefs.js

  restart

Guus.






Joost van Baal wrote:
 

snip

 It's your mua which adds the Sender: header.  You could try
 configuring your client to add a more sane Sender: header,
 or use a mua which doesn't add such a header.

On Behalf Of . . .

[Guus]

Some mail clients (MS Outlook) interpret the mail headers
and decide that my mail is sent 'on behalf of' My Name.
Possibly this is because they see a header 'Sender: ' that
does not match the 'From: ' header.

How can I make 'Sender: ' match 'From: ' ?

As the courtesy to users of all persuasions, how can I
avoid the 'on behalf of' message?

Example header is listed below. You can see my box claims to
be in the zinias.nl domain, when it really sits in the a200.nl.
The zinias.nl domain exists, but is hosted somewhere else.
Of course it's probably easier to look at the headers of this
mail yourself.

I run a linux box.

Tia,
Guus.


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Re: On Behalf Of . . .

[Guus]

I use netscape.
Can qmail rewrite headers?

Thanks,
Guus.

 
 It's your mua which adds the Sender: header.  You could try
 configuring your client to add a more sane Sender: header,
 or use a mua which doesn't add such a header.
 
 Bye,
 
 Joost

No mailbox for root

[Guus]

Newly installed qmail on 2.2 debian/linux works fine, except...

Whenever I send mail to root@localhost I get an error message

root@mydomain
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

A trial installation of qmail does not have this problem.
Similar, almost identical, setup.

How can I create a mailbox for root?

What I want is to forward mail for root to another user.

Tia,
Guus.

Re: No mailbox for root

[Guus]

I read the manual and created the
files ~alias/.qmail-root etc.

Problem solved.

Thanks,
Guus.

 
 How can I create a mailbox for root?
 
 What I want is to forward mail for root to another user.
 
 Tia,
 Guus.