On Friday 09 April 2004 17:40, Kevin Barnard wrote:
> Whenever I send mail I want it to appear as coming from 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  What happoens is it gets sent as 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is the hostname.  I've setup mydomain.com 
> in the me and defaultdomain files.  This doesn't appear to have any 
> effect.  This seems like it would be simple yet I can't seem to get it. 
>   What am I doing wrong?

The FROM address is set by the mail client, not by courier.  Check your 
account configuration in Mutt (I don't use it so I can help you) and set it 
to be what you want.

If you are sending mail from SqWebMail then the FROM address should be 
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" although there's a setting that allows users to 
change the FROM address in SqWebMail as well.

> BTW as I test I send a message to kbarnard a local account to kbarnard 
> without any domain name and the message doesn't go anywhere.  I am 
> using mutt to send the message.  I would say think it might be a mutt 
> problem but I don't get any of the system messages from cron either.

Courier will not accept mail through SMTP that does not have a fully qualified 
address.  So sending mail to "kbarnard" will never work - courier will reject 
it.  If mail is submitted through a program like sendmail on the command 
line, however, then sendmail will add the default domain to any address that 
doesn't have a domain.  So you can do something like "sendmail kbarnard < 
msg.txt" and sendmail will submit the message for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (or 
whatever your default domain is).

If you're not getting any mail from cron then something is wrong.  Courier 
won't deliver mail to 'root' - it is usually aliased to 'postmaster' in the 
courier/etc/aliases/system file.  So do you have a postmaster account or have 
you aliased postmaster to another account?

Jeff Jansen


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