Re: MTA and SMTP ident

[martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de (Martin Bialasinski)]

>> "GC" == G Crimp <ye416@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> writes:

GC> No I don't have a registered name for my box, but my box's name
GC> doesn't appear anywhere, I have visible_name set to the name of my
GC> ISP.  It is just the local user name that gets sent out (ie, my
GC> user name on my local box) and appended to my ISP domain.  My
GC> local user name is not the same as my user name on any of my
GC> exteranl acounts, so the resulting combination is illegal.

Then use the use the way described in the faq-o-matic (I posted the
link before).

BTW: A check depending on the local part of a email address is quite
dump. Many admins have disabled this feature.

GC>  BTW, you have spoken a couple of times of the acceptable
GC>  behaviour GC> of mail agents in handling of From: and Sender:
GC>  header etc.  Where are you GC> getting this information ?

The docs for exim have some stuff about this, when they describe the
different options and behaviour (www.exim.org and exim-doc
package). Ther may be better documentation.

Ciao,
	Martin