Re: Setting proper From: lines
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:38:00PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
:>>>>> "Spinfire" == Spinfire Magenta <dpn@isomerica.net> writes:
:
:Spinfire> I'm not quite sure if this is an Exim issue or a MUA (Mutt)
:Spinfire> issue, but... here goes:
:
:Spinfire> I have a machine that is both my workstation and the Mail
:Spinfire> Exchanger for my domain (isomerica.net). Mail sent to
:Spinfire> user@isomerica.net works fine, however, mail sent from the
:Spinfire> host is instead tagged with the full hostname (From:
:Spinfire> user@gnat.isomerica.net) instead of the preferred
:Spinfire> 'user@isomerica.net' form.
:
:Spinfire> Is this an Exim issue (i did use isomerica.net as the
:Spinfire> 'outgoing mail name' during the Exim configuration) or if
:Spinfire> this is a Mutt issue.
:
:It can be solved with Exim (look for "Address rewriting" in the docs)
:but that is more like a work-around. Better tell Mutt to set the From
:header correctly in the first place. Sorry, no Mutt experience here.
in my ~/.muttrc:
my_hdr From: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>
-Jon
Reply to: