On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:10:49PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > 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). that makes sense, though I could never get it right. Haven't tried in a while though. Meanwhile, ISTM that many of the popular GUI MUA's have a setup that makes it trivial for the user to set the from address etc that they would like seen by the outside world. And I imagine that would be the default behaviour of many people setting up an MUA for the first time. The result is the MUA is spitting out emails with a from "Me@myisp.com" instead of "me@mydebianbox.fakedomain.tld" needing rewrite in the MTA to "me@myisp.com". Of course all my experience is in a smarthost type of arrangement with a very limited home network behind the local MTA that connects to those smarthosts. A
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