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Re: Mutt questions



On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 07:13:48PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Perhaps in 1985 when you were running a VAX 11/780 attached to
> a backbone those assumptions made sense.  These days they
> don't. All of my machines are behind firewalls and none of my
> machines have hostnames that mean anything to anybody outside
> the firewall.  My laptop doesn't even always have the same
> hostname from one day to the next.
> 
> Despite both these situations being quite common, none of the
> MTAs I've tried (Exim, Qmail, Sendmail) deal with either
> situation well.

Exim's rewrite support works perfectly for me, although of course your
mileage may vary. See /etc/email-addresses in the default Debian
configuration.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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