More questions on smail configuration for SMTP/PPP
What excellent timing for this thread; I also am trying to set up
smail-to-SMTP-via-PPP for outgoing mail. I have a linux box called "mars"
with accounts "root", "vielo", "val", etc. (They're all me, but I login
under different names sometimes.) I have an account "vielo" at an ISP
called "wolfenet.com", which has an SMTP server available.
I want all outgoing mail to be addressed as From: vielo@wolfenet.com and
Reply-To: vielo@wolfenet.com, no matter which account on mars it
originates from. I have smail's visible_name variable set to
"wolfenet.com", but how do I tell smail what my login over there is?
I don't want smail combining my local login name with the remote hostname
and sending out mail with From: val@wolfenet.com (which doesn't exist) or
From: root@wolfenet.com (which would get my ISP angry). Ordinarily I
would just work by trial-and-error, but in this case I don't want to
inconvenience other people over a faulty mail configuration. Can the SMTP
server automatically supply the login field based on which
account I'm PPP'ing through?
PS. So far I've sent two messages out: one to the Linux counter during
smailconfig, and one to myself (to my ISP address). Both of them
disappeared into the bit bucket (they didn't get delivered and they
didn't bounce).
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