On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:47:23AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>Rajesh Fowkar rearranged electrons thusly:
>
>> If I send a mail to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] then in the sent mail box of
>> kmail I can see the from address as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but while sending mail
>> sendmail puts there somehow [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is the local email id.
>
>The from address in your mail client not necessarily equal to the envelope_from
>header
In the earlier version of Kmail(kde 1), it was working but. It was long
back. Since mails were going without any problems I suppose it was setting
envelope_from properly because now and then, both times I was using
sendmail.
>
>> The error is correct. But how is that From address becomes
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] when Kmail sends it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
>
>KMail doesnt seem to be doing masquerading / setting the envelope sender (it
>never has I believe - I've never used kmail that often)
>
>> Mar 29 23:56:22 debian sendmail[1744]: f2TNuM901744: from=deepa, size=339,
> ^^^^^
>> class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<01032923562105.01462@debian>, relay=localhost
>> [[UNIX: localhost]]
>
>In (say) Mutt ...
>
>Mar 30 05:35:11 blackehlo sendmail[556]: f2U05BtX000556:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=721, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=suresh@localhost
So that means sendmail checks for envelope_from and not from ? or is it
both ?
>
>> Mar 29 23:56:24 debian sendmail[1746]: f2TNuM901744: forward
>> /home/deepa/.forward.debian: Group writable directory
>
>Dude - fix the permissions of /home/deepa (or the .forward file) - one or the
>other is group writeable - A Bad Thing (tm)
I have not created any .forward file. I am surprised how the above error
came. Still will check out tonight.
Thanks a lot.
Regards
--
Rajesh Fowkar
(Computer Programmer)
V. S. DEMPO & CO. LTD., PANAJI-GOA
Email ID : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site : http://www.dempos.com
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