Re: Can't post to list with mutt/exim4?!
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:02:47 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> I went the headers-rewrite route with exim/mutt for a while and just
> go myself into more trouble. IIRC, the thing to do is set all your
> headers and envelope headers in mutt and then allow
> local_sender_retain and put yourself in trusted_users
>
> local_sender_retain = true
> trusted_users = <your name here>
>
> there are surely better ways to do this, or at least more maintainable
> ways, but it works for me by allowing local smtp connections (like
> from mutt) to retain their headers without exim tacking on local
> addresses and such. There will still be evidence of the local machine
> (just look at my headers), but the froms, env froms etc are all set by
> mutt.
The advantage of doing the rewrite in the MTA is that you don't need to
configure each MUA separately (I use Sylpheed-Claws-GTK2 and have
muttng as backup).
Regards,
Andrei
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