Re: Mutt Mail to List Fails

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:00:06PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon,08.Sep.08, 14:23:42, Thomas H. George wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > You could try:
> > > 
> > > set envelope_from_address=lists@tomgeorge.info
> > > set use_envelope_from
> > 
> > Made the suggested additions to muttrc and am sending this from mutt
>  
> Great! After reading some more it seems that setting 'use_envelope_from' 
> would have been enough, as by default it uses the value of from if 
> 'envelope_from_address' is not set. Thinking about it, it probably makes 
> sense to have 'use_envelope_from' set by default.
> 
> As to your original problem, my guess is that your ISP's or Debian's 
> spamfilter will not let messages through if 'From' and 'Envelope-From' 
> don't match.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrei
> -- 

I agree the problem must be with the ISP's or Debian's spamfilter.
Something must have changed recently as I posted from mutt for years
with the old muttrc entries.  It's surprising that more people haven't
reported the problem.

Regards,
Tom
> If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
> (Albert Einstein)