Re: email lacks sender address
On Wed 27 Apr 2022 at 08:05:46 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> David. thanks for hanging in with me!
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 03:23:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
> > Do you know why mutt is adding a Sender: line to your emails?
> > Did you ask it to, or have you been asked to by someone else?
>
> No, I didn't ask mutt to add a Sender: line and I do not know what
> evidence there it that it is doing so.
>
> If I understand correctly, which is always in serious doubt, it is
> exim that constructs the Sender: line by combining /etc/mailname and
> $LOCALHOST. Is this so?
No. exim4 uses what is in /etec/mailname as the MAI FROM: (the envelope
from).
> These values are present:
>
> $ nano /etec/mailname
> lenin.histomat.net
lenin.histomat.net appears to be unrouteable. How a remote system would
deal with that is anyone's guess.
--
Brian.
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