At 2:10 PM -0500 2004-10-21, Wally Hartshorn wrote:
Everything looks about ready to go except that the address that appears in the "From" line from is the real name of the machine rather than the alias. In other words, the real machine name might be uglyrealname.domain.com, which has a DNS alias of prettyalias.domain.com.
When you say "alias" you mean this is done via a CNAME record, right?
If so, then don't do that. The RFCs specify that any CNAME found in a mail header has to be replaced with the canonical name that is referenced by the alias, which results in precisely the kind of problem you appear to be having. Try replacing the CNAME record with an "A" record that refers to the same IP address.
Is there any way I can change that, either through a config setting or by modifying the Python code?
Nope. This kind of thing is done at the MTA level, not within Mailman. Moreover, while you might be able to configure your MTA to violate this rule, you can't do the same for all the other MTAs in the world, and once the name is changed the damage can't be un-done.
Change your DNS to remove the CNAME alias and replace that with an "A" record which references the same IP address, and you should be okay.
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