Re: MTA and SMTP ident
With sendmail, I use the MASQUERADE_AS line in sendmail.mc which works for
me on restricted lists.
Bob
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, G. Crimp wrote:
>
> What do people on this list do when there local name is not the same
> as there login at their ISP ? My mail doesn't make it to some mailing lists
> because of the SMTP ident thingy. I'm talking about dial up users like
> myself, not those who are running servers and have their own domains, etc.
>
> For example, suppose my ID on my local Linux box is me_here but my ID
> at my ISP is me_there. I can set the From: header correctly, eg.
> me_there@my.isp.com. But, when an e-mail message gets sent, the receiving
> end writes an envelope From header using information my local MTA has sent
> along with the message. The From: header is okay, but the envelope From
> header gets written as me_here@my.isp.com. The my.isp.com is getting
> through because I could tell smail that my visible_name was the domain of my
> ISP and not the local machine name.
>
> It seems that MTA's look up the loginname of the user sending the
> mail, and pass that along with the message. The receiving end then uses
> that to write the envelope. Some mailing lists don't like the fact the
> From: field and the envelope don't agree and reject my mail. I can get
> others' posts, but can not post myself.
>
> Anyone know how I can work around this ? I am currently using
> smail, and had a look at exim, but couldn't find any feature that would
> allow this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gerald
>
>
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