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Re: exim & mutt, weird



On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:42:43AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:18:53PM +0000, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 07:05:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > 
> > > I have exim (1.90-3) and mutt (non-i, 0.91.1-1) installed here;
> > > when I send a message, mutt sets the from address to just
> > > "hamish@@". 
> > 
> > In .muttrc I have:
> > 
> > set hostname="earthlink.net"	# my DNS domain
> > set use_from			# always generate the `From:' header field
> 
> Thanks for your help. Although this will certainly work, I'd ideally
> like a proper solution rather than just a workaround. I assume
> that you've had the same problem then, since you have implemented this?
> It worked fine here with smail. 

To me the correct way is "unset use_from" and let the MTA generate the
correct address.  With the default "set use_from", I've seen hostname
info appear in the from address when that machine shouldn't be receiving
email.

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Lee Bradshaw                 lee@sectionIV.com (preferred)
Alantro Communications       lee@alantro.com


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