On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:44 +0000, Felixk Karpfen wrote: > One of the few inputs requested by exim4-config is "hostname". > > The screen, that contains this request, explains that the "hostname" is > the part of the email address that comes after the "@". As far as I can > judge exim4 uses this input in conjunction with the user's login name to > construct the "envelope_from" address. > > Unfortunately this does not work on my setup because my login name on my > computer and my login name on my ISP's computer are different. > > When "mutt" is used in conjunction with "sendmail" this can be fixed > with the "set envelope_from" command. This does not work with exim4 - > as shown by the following testrun:
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
answer question in this order with these answers:
Split configuration into small files? yes or no (depends on your wants)
General type of mail configuration:
mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
System mail name: carrot.cabbage.patch
IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP connections: 127.0.0.1
Other destinations for which mail is accepted: (I leave it blank)
Machines to relay mail for: (I leave this blank too)
Machine handling outgoing mail for this host (smarthost):
(your ISP's mailserver IP address)
Hide local mail name in outgoing mail? YES <---First Important Setting
Visible domain name for local users:
your ISPs domain (mine being gregfolkert.net)
^^^Second Important Setting^^^
Keep number of DNS-queries minimal (Dial-on-Demand)?
Typically no if broadband, yes if dial-up.
run: update-exim4.conf && /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
I believe the dpkg-reconfigure does this though.
And deliver messages from mutt, to your local machine on 127.0.0.1
All should be well and good.
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greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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