And Mikko Hänninen said....
> What *does* sSMTP use as the envelope sender address in case the From
> header is present, shouldn't it use the address from the From header?
> If so, then it should be the exact same behaviour of $envelope_from..
> But obviously this isn't happening.
Trying your suggestions I know the exact problem now. ssmtp is is creating
the envelope_from using <user>@<hostname> which is not my alternate address
>
> > Since the Mutt manual states that 'envelope_from' is sent to sendmail
> > via the -f flag, this would explain why the envelope is not being written as
> > my alternate address.
>
> Right.
>
> You can have Mutt not create a From header by unsetting $use_from.
See above, when I do this ssmtp creates the from address and envelope_from
using <user>@<hostname>, arggggggggggggg!
> I recommend that instead of switching from sSMTP to sendmail, switch to
> another dialup/offline MTA, such as MasqMail or nullmailer. I don't
> know if either of those fully support -f, but I would imagine they do
> (especially MasqMail should, based on the name...). Pointers at
> http://www.mutt.org/links.html .
Next step, I'll try one tonight. If it fails I'm off to sendmail.org (now
where's that m4 file I built last summer?)
DAve
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