[ILUG] mail woes

[Lars Hecking]

Brendan Carton writes:
> Thanks to the guys who put me onto 'mutt' the other day. Changed my life.
> 
> One slight problem still... mail seems to be going out as
> 
>   myself at mylinuxbox.ruthlesstransnational.com
 
 I suggest 

 set hidden_host

> The 'linuxbox' bit means bounced emails never find their way back.
> Emails were getting reject ('501 domain not found') but we fixed that
> by adding a MASQUERADE_AS(esat.net)dnl line into
> /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/cf/nuconfig.mc
> 
> I guess setting an alias(?) to strip out the machinename would be
> a better way to go. Anyone have any tips on how to do this?
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> (ps. Tampering with the 'from' field in .muttrc made no difference.)

 It works for me ... what exactly do you have in .muttrc?