On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 10:50:09AM +0200, Stefan Troeger wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 00:14 -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:

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While trying to set up mutt as my mailer I ran into a problem I don't have with Netscape (since they don't use sendmail).

I am trying to set my from line to say 'to.avi@usa.net' (which is my virtual e-mail address) rather then whatever sendmail tries to stick in there. My user name on my machine is 'avi'.

Try this in your ~/.muttrc:

my_hdr From: Avi Schwartz unset use_domain

Ciao, Stefan

Stefan, This worked great with mutt, thank you! Now I am looking for a more general way to do it with sendmail, just in case one day I decide to use a different mailer that doesn't make it so easy. ;-) Avi -- Windows 98 supports real multitasking - it can boot and crash simultaneously ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Avi Schwartz to.avi@usa.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 05:38:39PM +0200, Stefan Troeger wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 09:21 -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:

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Now I am looking for a more general way to do it with sendmail, just in case one day I decide to use a different mailer that doesn't make it so easy. ;-)

You'll have to edit /etc/mail/genericstable. Add a line like this:

your_local_login your_email_address

e. g.:

avi to.avi@usa.net

Then do (as root)

/usr/sbin/makemap hash -f genericstable.db

A `mail avi

Ciao, Stefan

This one worked but I had to make one change. When I used -f, the translation of the e-mail address didn't occur. Once I remove -f, i.e.: makemap hash genericstable.db

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"AS" == Avi Schwartz writes:

AS> Stefan, AS> This worked great with mutt, thank you! AS> Now I am looking for a more general way to do it with sendmail, AS> just in case one day I decide to use a different mailer that AS> doesn't make it so easy. ;-) endmail offers `-f' to "Set sender's address", but it's quite hard or even impossible to set this, if a specific MUA doesn't offer a way to pass this through (as mutt apparently does). Eg. Gnus up to 5.6.29 doesn't, but I have found out where to patch message.el, so that it does that kind of thing for me. But it hasn't found acceptance in the Gnus community. It is still an open issue, where and when mail header forging is to be allowed / wished. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e