* Michael Ludwig on Monday, June 21, 2010 at 16:27:52 +0200 > I send mail using ssmtp (a simple standalone SMTP library) and one of > the SMTP servers for the different freemail addresses I have. > > When receiving an email to ad...@gmx.de, I'd like to reply using that > as the From line, and also the corresponding SMTP account, of course. > Same thing for ad...@gmx.de, ad...@googlemail.com and so on. > > set from = "ad...@gmx.de" # main address > set alternates = "^(ad...@gmx.de|ad...@gmx.de|ad...@googlemail.com)$" > set use_from = yes # generate From: header > set reverse_name = yes # use alternates when replying > > This seems to set my sender address as desired. But in order for the > mail to get accepted by the SMTP server, I have to select matching > SMTP server settings (addr1 account for addr1 etc), and I can't seem > to figure out how to change the sendmail command based on the sender > address. A send-hook, for instance, is for "Chang[ing] settings based > upon message recipients", which is fine, but not what I beed in this > case.
Use a message-hook? > Is the best option to write a shell or Perl script to parse the mail, > determine the appropriate SMTP server from the "From" line (first line > of the mail), and then to exec ssmtp with the appropriate arguments or > configuration file? Might be easier to switch to msmtp which provides this functionality - or postfix in case it already supports relaymaps. c -- theatre - books - texts - movies Black Trash Productions at home: http://www.blacktrash.org/ Black Trash Productions on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blacktrashproductions
