Re: Can't post to list with mutt/exim4?!
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:27:46 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> 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
I'm using postfix. The changes are very simple and well documented.
Regards,
Andrei
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