[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 asking, but just to clarify things.)
If you use normal mailbox files, your will get "From " lines in them.
This is one BSD-ish way of separating messages, and it just happens to
have the envelope sender in it.
The envelope sender is what smail or another MTA sends in the SMTP
transaction:
> 220 psyche ESMTP
< HELO psyche
> 250 psyche
< MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Envelope sender
> 250 ok
< RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Envelope recipient
> 250 ok
< DATA
> 354 go ahead
< From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # From can be different
< Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Sender can be different
< Subject: test
< To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # This is different
<
< test
< .
> 250 ok
< QUIT
> 221 psyche
I'm pretending I Bcc'd this to "carey", so the header doesn't contain
the envelope recipient. If delivered directly, this message could
look something like the following, in [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s
mailbox:
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 2 19:14:40 1998
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: (blah blah);
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: test
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
test
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> Carey, is there a central configuration file for qmail. I would like
> one file to translate internal names to external names instead of
> relying on the user to get things right with the MAILUSER? environment
> variable. Right now it's only one or two users, but I would still
> prefer the configuration file in case I ever want to handle more people.
At one stage I was doing this in a Perl script as part of the
serialmail process. You'd need to intercept all outgoing mail
somehow and rewrite it, then redeliver it. It sounds a bit hard for
me.
Alternatively, you could write a script for /etc/profile that looks up
the correct addresses and outputs them, so that the shell includes
them as:
eval "`get-qmail-addrs`"
where get-qmail-addrs prints, for example,
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export MAILUSER=c.evans
export MAILHOST=clear.net.nz
export QMAILSUSER=c.evans
export QMAILSHOST=clear.net.nz
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> Is qmail only available for hamm? Any suggestions for building it on
> bo?
It should build for bo with no problems.
> Or even better, suggestions to get smail working properly?
I only used smail for a couple of days, so I can't suggest anything.
BTW, I see nothing wrong with the two example addresses you posted, as
part of the header of an email.
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Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/
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