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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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