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[ILUG] Sendmail Return-Path question

[ILUG] Sendmail Return-Path question

Philip Reynolds phil at redbrick.dcu.ie
Wed Jul 24 11:17:35 IST 2002


Fergal Moran's [fergal.moran at wasptech.com] 42 lines of wisdom included:
> > Alterantively, perhaps your ``MASQUERADE_AS'' line contains 
> > ``host.domain.com'' instead of just ``domain.com''? 
> > 
> Nope - the MASQUERADE_AS line is definitely mydomain.com - the MUA is
> mutt with a blank .muttrc file - does mutt stick in a From: line if it's
> rc file is empty?  The reason I have a blank .muttrc file by the way is
> I am using this to test a web based interface - so I want to do as much
> of the configuration in the sendmail end.

It's mutt that sets this From header.

Stick the following into your .muttrc (Mutt will default to the FQDN
of your machine iirc)

my_hdr From: Fergal Moran <myusername at mydomain>

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  Philip Reynolds        
   RFC Networks          tel: 01 8832063
www.rfc-networks.ie      fax: 01 8832041




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