I'm no Linux expert and have some questions regarding mail handling.
My system is PentiumII, RedHat 6.1, kernel 2.2.13 and qmail 1.03
without tcpserver and such recommended stuff (it works without so far).
I'm using KDE 1.1.2 (I think) and qmail was installed before upgrading
RH from 5.2 to 6.x (first 6.0, then 6.1). After which qmail claims
to be dead, but runs all the same - seems quite ok! ;-/
1) Some days ago on this list, some guys were discussing whether
Return-Path is set by the MUA or the MTA. This is an issue for
me as I have (had?) problems with this, using mutt. Even if I try
to include a "my_hdr" it will not work; my mail is refused by my
ISP because "sender domain must exist", and of course Return-Path
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (my local machine) does not exist. I want
Return-Path to be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Reading docs I discover that qmail-inject strips away any occurence
of Return-Path (the person arguing that this header value was solely
a matter of the MUA must be wrong, or I'm missing something?).
I have now made a change in .muttrc (set sendmail="..qmail-inject
[EMAIL PROTECTED]") and it might be working now. Hopefully there is
no drawbacks(?)
Anyone who wants to comment on this (and perhaps explaing "things"
to me)? ;-) Perhaps there are better ways to set the correct
Return-Path.
2) Perhaps this is a mutt question, but is it possible to prevent
my outoing mail to be sent immediately (my router making a call
for every single mail)? With KMail this was no problem as KMail did
not send until requested. If this isn't easily solved from mutt,
is there a way to configure qmail to not send remote mail until
requested or something like that? Seems to me that that would be
the preferred way.
Thank you! ;-)
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