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Re: Configuring exim4 (for use with mutt)



On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:38:11PM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:44:39PM +0000, Felixk Karpfen wrote:
> > Unfortunately this does not work on my setup because my login name on my
> > computer and my login name on my ISP's computer are different.
> > 
> > When "mutt" is used in conjunction with "sendmail" this can be fixed
> > with the "set envelope_from" command.  This does not work with exim4 -
> > as shown by the following testrun:
> 
> You may try the following in .muttrc:
> 
> set from=your email address
> set realname="your name"
> set use_from=yes
> 
> It doesn't do anything with envelopes, but might solve your
> problem. At least it gives you a correct From line. In the case of my
> ISP (xs4all.nl, who sponsor nl.debian.org) all works fine with those
> settings. You may want to check what the headers of this mail look
> like.

Question:
Does he need to complete his file /etc/email-addresses ?
-- 
Gérard 



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