On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:24:31AM -1000, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez [Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:10:22 -0400]: > > > > Nope, that won't help. Knowing you use Mutt, and unless your MTA is > > > configured in a quite restrictive way, this should solve your problems: > > > > % echo set envelope_from=yes >>~/.muttrc > > > That did it. Now, care to explain why/how? > > Provided that you understand the diference (hinted in my previous mail) > between the SMTP-level "MAIL FROM", a.k.a. "Envelope-From", and > headers-level "From" header, the answer is this: > > the default behavior is for /usr/lib/sendmail implementations to > always use as Envelope-From `whoami`@`hostname`. If the user does not > want this, they can invoke the sendmail binary like "sendmail -f > desired_envelope_from@foo.com". > > If Mutt's $envelope_from is set, Mutt will use the "From: " as the > desired envelope-from, and will tell so to sendmail with -f. > OK. That makes perfect sense. > > Also, why is this not default? > > My guess it's that it's not set by default upstream in order to retain > compatibility after introducing this option. As for Debian, I don't > recall any request to differ from upstream since I started reading mutt > BTS traffic; maybe there were some, earlier than that. > Hmm. Oh well. At least it is fixed now. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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