Re: Mutt and From: line in mail
I think I may have found it. From the qmail FAQ:
>> 1.2. How do I set up user masquerading? I'd like my own From lines to
>> show boss@af.mil rather than god@heaven.af.mil.
>>
>> Answer: Add MAILHOST=af.mil and MAILUSER=boss to your environment. To
>> override From lines supplied by your MUA, add QMAILINJECT=f to your
>> environment.
I set QMAILINJECT back before I knew that I could get the correct behavior
through mutt alone, then forgot I had set it and what it meant.
If this message has my name in the From line then that is it; otherwise
it is not.
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:22:24PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> markzimm@rmi.net (markzimm@rmi.net) wrote:
>
> > There must be something I misunderstand, then. I put the following into
> > .muttrc:
> >
> > my_hdr From: Mark Zimmerman <markzimm@rmi.net>
>
> Is it possible that your upstream SMTP server is rewriting the header
> line? Looking at the Received: headers on your message, there's an
> intermediate step (chevalier.rmi.net) between your system and kellnet.com
>
> If you're saving copies of your outgoing message (highly recommended),
> then check to see whether mutt changed the header before sending it.
> (I suspect that mutt is not the problem....)
>
> If you can't figure out anything locally, you might want to try manually
> sending a message through your upstream SMTP server using telnet.
> Like so:
>
> telnet chevalier.rmi.net 25
> helo some.host.name
> mail from:<markzimm@rmi.net>
> rcpt to:<markzimm@rmi.net>
> data
> From: Mark Zimmerman <markzimm@rmi.net>
> To: Mark Zimmerman <markzimm@rmi.net>
> Subject: test
>
> test
> .
> quit
>
> Then see what the message looks like.
>
> --
> Greg Wooledge | Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/
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