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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/
> wooledge@kellnet.com             | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste.
> http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |



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