I usually write email on the Debian box here, for which I installed UUCP and SMail, which works fine. I can change the From: line to whatever I like and my provider still accepts and delivers the emails. So far, so good.
But there is a Mac here which communicates with my Linux box via Ethernet and which I would also like to send mail from. I installed Internet Config and MacSOUP and started reading mail. Worked fine. Then I send some email which returned with an error message from my provider's MTA. It told me the return-path of my message was wrong. I assume what it means is the first line in an email's header which looks like: >From cat.ping.de!tom . . From: Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . If my assumption is correct then MacSOUP generates a wrong header because the first line looks like: >From pobox.com!tadams Now I wonder if I can configure SMail in such a way that it rewrites the first >From line (aka Envelope?) to a format my provider likes? Below is an example error message: >From MAILER-DAEMON Mon Sep 7 08:51:14 1998 Return-Path: <real-tom> Received: by cat.ping.de via rmail from stdin id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:51:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 12284 invoked by uid 10); 6 Sep 1998 22:54:28 -0000 Date: 6 Sep 1998 22:54:28 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail failed - invalid return-path Status: RO Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 31 Hi. This is the rmail program at lilly.ping.de. I am afraid I can only accept messages that have a valid return-path (or From_ line) pointing to an address in the .ping.de domain. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. >From pobox.com!tadams Sun Sep 6 21:50:56 1998 remote from cat Received: from [192.168.1.2] (really [192.168.1.2]) by cat.ping.de via in.smtpd with smtp id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:50:56 +0200 (CEST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xxxxxx xxxxxx) Subject: xxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Adams) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:50:53 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Organization: none X-Mailer: MacSOUP D-2.3.1 (unregistered)