>On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Craig Burley wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Now, set QMAILSHOST to fix that. Errr... I think it's QMAILSHOST.
Looks like it does work for qmail-inject, but there's some problem
with /var/qmail/bin/sendmail that prevents it working from there
(though Mate has had slightly different results from me pertaining
the defaulthost file -- for him, it gets into the Return-Path, but
it doesn't seem to for me using Emacs).
>Why don't you read the manual page for qmail-inject, and look at all the
>environment variables that are used for rewriting addresses.
I'd already read that man page several times, and probably all of the
others at least once. That doesn't mean I am anywhere near fully
understanding them, of course. :)
But, when I thought that Return-Path was the culprit, I simply *searched*
qmail-inject's man page for "Return-Path". I found several instances,
none of which seemed to apply to my situation.
It hadn't occurred to me to look for the phrase "envelope sender address"
or recognize that (when re-skimming the page) as meaning "Return-Path",
as I haven't memorized all the email terminology yet.
(When I write documentation, I try to make sure I use consistent
terminology, and, wherever possible, stick to terms and phrases
consistent with what a user will see on his screen, so searches
and indexes are more useful.)
Anyway, if I had tried defining QMAILSHOST, it wouldn't have worked for
the case I care about, though it does (nicely) for the simple
qmail-inject case.
tq vm, (burley)
