Re: Sendmail setup.
Thanks George. What do you suggest as a good mail host?
>From grep@shorelink.com Sat Jul 18 17:57:54 1998
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>Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 17:57:53 -0700 (PDT)
>From: George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>
>Reply-To: grep@oriole.sbay.org
>To: Mark Yobb <myobb@hotmail.com>
>cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Sendmail setup.
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>On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Mark Yobb wrote:
>
>> Currently smail takes the name of my currently logged in
>> username (on my system) and I end up with something like
>> localusername@ISP.com in the From: field of my mail.
>> I would like it to be From: ispusername@ISP.com so people will be
able
>> to reply to me. I could create a user on my home system with the
same
>> name as my email name at my ISP but I think there must be some other
>> way?
>
>Look at your email client configuration and see if you can set the
From:
>and Reply-To: lines there. Same for your newsreader. Make sure you set
an
>Errors-To: header with a reachable email address though if your
envelope
>sender address (your local username and host ) is not reachable.
Otherwise
>remote systems will not be able to deliver bounce messages if there is
a
>problem with delivery ... they ignore From: and Reply-To: and use
>Return-Path: which is the envelope sender.
>
>
>
>George Bonser
>
>Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today?
>
>
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