John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've found that it is sufficient to set visible_name to the host part of my
popmail address. That is, my email address at BrightNet is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so I put visible_name=win.bright.net in
smail/config. This gets my mail out past their anti-spam-relay
Bob Hilliard writes:
It should be possible to make any other MUA put a proper From: field in
the mail they send to smail.
That isn't the problem. It is the MAIL FROM address in the smtp
transaction that causes difficulty. BrightNet refuses my mail if this
address is not in their domain (even
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Martin at cush) writes:
However, if smail is handed a from address (either by the SMTP MAIL
FROM: command or by the -f or -r option to the senmail command),
smail will use that address. Therefore it may be perfectly possible
to convince your MUA to hand smail a from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
This may or may not be justification for refusal, I can't say for sure.
My recommendation would be to avoid using potentially problematic
fields, of which From (without the colon) seems to definately qualify.
He doesn't add a from (without colon)
Carey Evans wrote:
What about the envelope sender? sendmail writes this as:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 1 16:12:31
or something similar at the top of the message. qmail puts:
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as RFC821 and RFC822 (4.3.1, 4.4.3) suggest.
Hi Carey and David,
David
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes:
David in another message you were suggesting I not use the from line.
Do you know how to turn it off? I haven't found any way to control
this line -- smail seems to generate this line as Carey describes for
sendmail.
(This isn't quite what you're
Hi,
Well thanks to help from Art, Carey, Daniel, and Martin I think we have
the problem narrowed down to the envelope sender (MAIL FROM: in the
SMTP dialog). If I connect to the mail server with telnet as Carey
suggested, everything is fine. Netscape also has no problem generating
mail with the
I am not sure whether this can help you at all (or whether it has been
brougth up before), but the following hack, posted to a debian list a
long time ago, works for me in rewriting headers with smail.
I am using my university account to connect to the internet, and I
want all replies (regardless
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes:
Well thanks to help from Art, Carey, Daniel, and Martin I think we have
the problem narrowed down to the envelope sender (MAIL FROM: in the
SMTP dialog). If I connect to the mail server with telnet as Carey
suggested, everything is fine. Netscape
Daniel Martin writes:
One thing I'm also doing is rewriting my smail config file each time ppp
goes up so that my visible_name is set to the current value
(e.g. ppp75.hcf.jhu.edu); this value is also stored in /etc/mailname.
I've found that it is sufficient to set visible_name to the host part
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:19:37 EST, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
[..]
local username had to match the remote username. Check out my web page
if you want to see all the effort I've put into HTML so far :^)
http://www.mindspring.com/~lee.bradshaw/
And what nice dogs you have. G.
If I didn't mention
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:19:37 EST, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
[snip]
If I didn't mention this before, I'm not cc'ing you because ipa.net
rejects my from lines as spam.
I don't understand why a correct header would be rejected. I'd like to
see some
On 01 Mar 1998 16:23:02 +1300, Carey Evans wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:19:37 EST, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
[snip]
If I didn't mention this before, I'm not cc'ing you because ipa.net
rejects my from lines as spam.
I don't understand why a
David Stern wrote:
I don't understand why a correct header would be rejected. I'd like to
see some details for the basis to this claim, because I use the same
address style as you and Daniel. Please tell.
This is from /var/spool/smail/msglog/... I broke it into multiple lines
Xdefer:
On Sun, 01 Mar 1998 14:34:05 EST, wrote:
David Stern wrote:
I don't understand why a correct header would be rejected. I'd like to
see some details for the basis to this claim, because I use the same
address style as you and Daniel. Please tell.
This is from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lee Bradshaw said:
Art, is your local user name alemas? My problem is that if I use my
isp
Yes. And your local user name should be same as what you
want as a user name in your e-mail return address (in your case,
lee.bradshaw) until we find a solution for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Art,
I'd like to see your solution and also your headers. Could you post a
copy of your headers for those of us reading the digest version of the
mailing list? Or just reply to this mail? I guess your message will
eventually show up in the archive, but
Sorry for the previous empty message.
Art, is your local user name alemas? My problem is that if I use my isp
for the visible name, I get a from [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Notice
there is no colon after the from. This is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unfortunately my email address is lee.bradshaw and my login on
Lee Bradshaw said:
Sorry for the previous empty message.
Art, is your local user name alemas? My problem is that if I use my isp
Yes. And your local user name should be same as what you want as
a user name in your e-mail return address (in your case, lee.bradshaw)
until we find a
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