A brief: How to use "envelope from" provided that I have a mailbox on ISP.
A full explanation: My computer has no static IP-address, nor DNS-name in Internet. Internally, it has static name "localhost" and static IP-address 127.0.0.1. So, I have a mail address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". But I cannot send a mail to the world using this address in "envelope from" because of 1) Internet MTAs cancel mail whith such an address in "envelope from"; 2) such an address is useless to recipient. My address in the world is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". So, I make my MUA to send a letter using a command setting "envelope from" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". (like sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] for sendmail, see "X-Authentication-Warning" in the header of this mail) But this way is bad for local purposes: my MTA's diagnostic messages are sent trough internet or lost at all, e. g. when my ADSL is in down. (Moreover, my letters sent to other local users have non-local "envelope from" address. Then local mail begin to go through external MTA.) What to do in such a situation? In principle, I can write a ruleset (in sendmail.cf by hand) for my sendmail to rewrite "envelope from" in outgouing mail from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and to leave it unchanged in local mail. But I think this is not a good solution, is it? I use sendmail 8.13.6 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, but the problem depends not on MTA nor on OS. Elisej Babenko _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
