Hi Raj,
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:25:56AM +0530, Raj Mathur wrote:
> You can set the From: address (Message From, not Envelope From) in
> most mail clients... you are using Mutt, I see, so it should be
> trivial in .muttrc. After that it doesn't really matter what the
> envelope From is.
Trying to get my fundas right ...
H?P?Return-Path: <the address where mail should be sent back in case of
delivery failure>
H??From: <the Reply To address as interpreted by an MUA, this is copied
from the senders MUA itself.>
So when you _reply_ to my mail ... you'd use 'H??From:' ... if you don't
want to even accept my mail ... you'll instruct the MT/DA on your box to
return mail to 'H?P?Return-Path' instead of appending it to your inbox.
Correct me if I am wrong ...
The reason I want to confirm this is that b4 I hacked .cf ... I _did_ the
tweaks in .muttrc ... but the problem was elsewhere.
So I'll repeat ... since the MTA is running on localhost without
SMART_HOST ... I'd rather have my mail bounced back to localhost and not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... coz that'll (potentially) make fetchmail to pull
a few more messages during mail reception in case any mails were not
delivered.
> Uh, it's been working fine for 2 years for me! Are you sure you're
> using your 8-digit phone number as your user-ID, any random string as
> password and using PAP authentication?
Yeah I do that ...
> Umm, not really. I'd try MTNL and the Envelope From tweaking in that
> order. Let us know if you succeed, others would benefit from the
> experience.
MTNL doesnt work ... actually it used to till November last year ... but
have not been able to connect after that ... and also not eager to find
out why thats happening.
Envelope From tweaking can be done by either setting 'Djhost.domain'
directly in .cf file or the usual way.
And ... I had to add a user account on my system having the SAME login
as my VSnL Id ... had to add an account with login 'gagan_grewal' and
use 'mutt' from that account. Using 'mutt' from root account was p'bly
sending out mails as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ... cool stuff ... but ilugd wasn't
taking mails from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ... prb'ly bcoz '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' never
subscribed to ilugd ;-)
Ok ... the problem I had was that sendmail was slow ... and I thot it could
get a speed-up if I used SMART_HOST ... but it seems sendmail IS infact
slow in general ... thats what I gather from a couple of other mails on
the list.
So ... 'tis fine as long as I dont have a lot of mails to be sent to a lot
of different host.domains.
But would defintely want some clues for that SMART_HOST setting.
Regards,
Gagan.
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