Re: email lacks sender address

[Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 05:31:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote:

> It looks to me as if you have no /envelope/ sender on some messages.
> I don't know whether that's caused by exim, say, failing to rewrite
> an address properly, but it seems unlikely that you're going to
> compose an email without a From: at the top. (I can't be sure: it
> might be possible to compose without showing headers, and there's
> also the possibility of sending emails from the command line.)
> 
> You can make mutt ensure that there's an envelope address by setting
> either (or both, they interact) of envelope_from_address or
> use_envelope_from. AIUI, exim can still select what actually gets
> used.

I placed these two lines in ~./muttrc/muttrc

  set envelope_from_address=haines@histomat.net
  set use_envelope_from=haines@histomat.net

but still get 521 5.5.1 Protocol error om outgoing messages.