On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:33:42PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have come across a minor problem with mutt-1.2.5: when I bounce
> a message, my ISP's SMTP server always refuses to accept it.
I have a similair problem -- bounced messages are lost and never reach
the destination.
> It tries
> to resolve my home computer's name, and since the address look-up always
> fails it refuses the connection attempt from my local MTA.
>
> Can you tell me why this happens?
I think I can. I've set $sendmail to a wrapper script and noticed, that
the "-f user@host" is not added when bouncing a message, despite
$envelope_from being turned on.
> In my .muttrc I set the variable envelope_from, which fills the "From "
> field in all my sent/forwarded emails correctly (by "hiding" my local address),
> but perhaps this doesn't work with bounced emails and my local address
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) show up in the header and confuses my ISP's
> server. If this is the problem, how can I overcome it?
You can add -fyour@address to $sendmail variable or you can make your
MTA do envelope masquerading. These solutions are not perfect, as they
override $envelope_from (I think... what would sendmail do if it got
two -f options?), and sometimes you need to have your envelope from
equal to the From: field.
Marius Gedminas
--
Q: Why do mountain climbers rope themselves together?
A: To prevent the sensible ones from going home.
