On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 01:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 !!
See that References: header? (and the In-Reply-To: header)? Those are message-ids which have formed part of the thread previously. If you reply and start a new mail, I get it as part of an old thread. > 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. No. That is just the from. set envelope_from will make your from and envelope_from (the smtp mail from: argument) the same. Big difference. > 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 Don't bother. It just sent it out with a mail from: of [EMAIL PROTECTED] or whatever, as you set your machine up to call itself softhome.net > > http://www.hserus.net/exim.html > > http://www.hserus.net/muttrc.html > The difference I found with my settings are: > This line 'queue_remote_domains = ! localhost' was NOT there in my No - it is just there if you are on a dialup. So local mail goes through ok to you (say cron outputs etc) - but any outbound mail is queued till you come online > Also the line route_list line in my config contained 'bydns_a' instead > of 'byname' as in the above exim.html web page. That does a DNS lookup - so what is the point, considering you are handing off mail to a smarthost smtp server anyway? > 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 Did you make user santanu a trusted user in exim? That should be there first - or exim won't allow you to set the sender envelope. > > 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. That, and the lines - hosts_require_auth = smtp.softhome.net hosts_try_auth = smtp.softhome.net Then that's all you need to AUTH to softhome. srs ------------------------------------------------------- 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
