On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:57:31AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:00:24PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > ... > > > Please comment and correct me if I have 'erred'. > > > > In my experience (a recent netinstall of Debian "testing"): > > > > (1) The smarthost of my ISP would not accept my mail until I > > configured Exim4 to "hide local mail address", with "visible domain > > name for local users" as the domain of my ISP ("oplink.net"). > > What is the contents of your /etc/email-addresses file?
I am currently using local_sender_retain = true local_from_check = false trusted_users = andrew in my exim4.conf to allow my from headers to remain unchanged in exim4. would /etc/email-addresses make this unnecessary? > > > (2) The address in the From: line of an outgoing message may be set to > > any address you wish, irrespective of the setting in Exim4; and this > > may be changed from one message to the next. Moreover, Mutt can be > > configured to automatically change both the address in the From: line > > and the signature. > This is the part that I think is a problem. I use different email addresses for different purposes and mutt automatically sets the appropriate from address for me depending on the mail box I'm in. So, would I spec more than one relationship in /etc/email-addresses? I would love to get my local machine's exim4.conf down to a more stock configuration. > Yeah sure, but you shouldn't have to, that's my point. Have you a script > in your .sig file? > > I still say that its an MTA problem. how does the MTA know what from address, among many, you want? A
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