On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 07:44:57PM -0700 or thereabouts, Kastus wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 02:54:59AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Ok. Who sets the envelope address, postfix? (certainly not the mail client).
Surprise, it's MUA. I'm not sure how to do it in pine, but in mutt you set the following variable:
envelope_from
Type: boolean Default: no
Mutt is very powerful, allowing one complete control over just about every aspect of your email... I like to call it Pine on steroids.. <g> I don't use the envelope_from, but rather use from hooks in the .muttrc file, so that for different groups I am on, it automatically selects the proper name in From: for that group. Mutt allows control over your envelope sender, which can be different from my From: as it is in my case. Many mail lists will subscribe users via the envelope only, as this list does, using ezmlm. So I can use a time dated From: address different from my envelope address (which I subscribed with) as above.
When set, mutt will try to derive the message's envelope sender from the "From:" header. Note that this information is passed to sendmail command using the "-f" command line switch, so don't set this option if you are using that switch in $sendmail yourself, or if the sendmail on your machine doesn't support that command line switch.
I use qmail on my servers, which will allow me to use its version of sendmail, or I just use qmail-inject with variables, called from Mutt, which allow me even further control over my email, and can use environmental variables to change ID's, etc... very effective against spam. -- Gary Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?