On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 08:19:58AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > >> References: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > First - please don't hit reply to an email and write your own mail on > top of it - plays hell with threaded mail clients.
Ouch... OK, I won't do that, but How did you understand that I did that !! > > I have the following line in exim.conf (Debian Woody): > > qualify_domain = softhome.net > > Get rid of it. And use a mail client that sets your envelope sender. > Well, you use mutt, I see. So stick "set envelope_from" in your muttrc. Till now, I used Esc+F to explicitly set my From line using mutt, which, I think is what the "set envelope_from" line does automatically. But still, the outgoing mails had their from line changed...probably exim re-wrote that. I am yet to learn how address rewriting is done under exim. If it is just through /etc/email-addresses, then I have already set it up correctly (I think). > http://www.hserus.net/exim.html > http://www.hserus.net/muttrc.html I checked out these sites. The difference I found with my settings are: This line 'queue_remote_domains = ! localhost' was NOT there in my exim.config. Was this the main culprit ? Also the line route_list line in my config contained 'bydns_a' instead of 'byname' as in the above exim.html web page. I have changed the qualify_domain line to read qualify_domain = localhost After all the changes made, just now I tried to send a test mail to my other email account, after placing the `set envelope_from' line in my .muttrc. 'mailq' shows that even after I explicitly used '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in my From line, the mail went out as From:santanu@localhost. As expected, softhome could not deliver the mail. Obviously, this is related to address overwriting I think. What do I do now? Please suggest. > Hell, as softhome.net does AUTH, you could just set exim to AUTH as a > client when sending out mail ... the Exim FAQ should help you do this. You mean these lines: ------------------------------------ plain: driver = plaintext public_name = PLAIN client_send = "^santanu^password" ------------------------------------ I have done that already. Regards, Santanu ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
