D. J. Bernstein writes:
>Craig Burley writes:
>> That is, I'd like outgoing email to be from `[EMAIL PROTECTED]', or
>> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]', or whatever (jcb-sc.com being my domain name).
>
>ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/faq/appearance.html#user-masquerading
That's helped some. I've made the specified changes (defining MAILHOST and
QMAILINJECT, but not MAILUSER, since I want to leave that be) to the
/etc/profile on my system. It causes the newly sent "From:" addresses
to be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
However, maildirsmtp still reports "451 Domain must resolve" errors
on new messages, so my ISP is still rejecting them.
I've hand-edited a pending (rejected by maildirsmtp) email so that
the "Return-Path:" address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
That makes the problem go away. (The edited file is successfully
uploaded by maildirsmtp, and deleted; the backup file, named with
a postfix `~' by Emacs, is unsuccessfully uploaded just as before.
I hand-deleted it.)
I can't see, offhand, a way to get these "Return-Path:" addresses
to read "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I'm not even sure it's the right
thing to do. (I tried QMAILINJECT=sf, no go, and I'm not really
sure enough about what VERPs are all about to try QMAILINJECT=rf,
which I've seen recommended somewhere but can't recall where.)
Should I contact my ISP and ask them to somehow improve their checking
of incoming SMTP connections so they permit "Return-Path:" to contain
addresses like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" when they have already allowed
"MAIL FROM: whatever@domain", or something like that?
Any other suggestions?
>Presumably your ISP makes *@jcb-sc.com available to you through POP; you
>can download it using fetchmail.
Yes, I believe so, and I've just downloaded fetchmail and its FAQ. I'll
start wrestling with it after I get outgoing email working (automatically,
that is, without my hand-editing the "Return-Path:" headers).
Another question:
Assuming I get through all this and successfully configure my email
for my LAN+ISP setup, I'd be willing to document what I've done, and
the reasoning behind it, for future newbie users (like myself). Is
there interest in such documentation, e.g. to be included with
future qmail packages (and documentation)? If so, what format would be
best for the documentation (I'm pretty comfortable with texinfo
these days)?
tq vm, (burley)
