Re: Sendmail setup.
In smail, you might do something like:
Errors-To: me@my-isp.dom
That goes in the smail config file BTW.
On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Mark Yobb wrote:
> Thanks George. What do you suggest as a good mail host?
>
> >From grep@shorelink.com Sat Jul 18 17:57:54 1998
> >Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by shorelink.com
> > with smtp (ident grep using rfc1413) id m0yxhnW-001CabC
> > (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Sat, 18 Jul 1998 17:57:54 -0700
> (PDT)
> >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.
> >In-Reply-To: <[🔎] 19980719003523.19040.qmail@hotmail.com>
> >Message-ID:
> <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980718175443.8667B-100000@calvin.shorelink.com>
> >X-No-Archive: yes
> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> >
> >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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