On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:28:55PM -0800, LinuxRocks! wrote:
> Originally, I did this:
> set hostname="rocksolidnetworks.com" # my DNS domain
> and it worked (but made the domainname UPPERcase, in email...) for some
> reason, it didnt work the next day... a few days later (today), I found
> this:
> set nouse_domain # don't qualify local addresses with $domain
> (and I removed the #), now it works, I just found another thing that
> might have helped...
>
> #set reverse_name # use my address as it appears in the message
> # i am replying to
>
> But whatever... as long as it works...
Yeah, but hostname isn't the best thing really--hostname exists for you to
choose which of your system's hostnames to use when sending mail, but it's
not quite the right way to to set a return address. The way I did it
allows for multiple usernames as well. My university address is
[EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED], for example. Also, if you deliver
your own mail, some servers will reject mail claiming to be from a
hostname that it doesn't. The use of my_hdr makes sure that the address
is properly set in the message, and use_from overrides what your local MTA
thinks your from address should be.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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