Hi
I ran across a strange problem today, when a person that I had sent an
e-mail to reported that my From: address incorrectly had *their*
domain name after the @. He explained that this was because I was
sending mail as "andre", and that it would therefore pick up the
receiving servers domain name. I am subscribed to several mailing
lists, and I have never seen this happen when looking at messages that
I have sent. I also tried sending an e-mail to my account at my
university, and that message had the correct From: line. Who is to
blame here? Is my setup incorrect, or was it just this persons setup
what was wrong? When composing a message in Mutt I can see that the
from line just has "andre" there, and not my domain name. Changing
use_domain to yes also changes this, but I don't know if that's how it
should be? My correct domain name should be "beta.telenordia.se". I
don't know if it is relevant, but for various reasons I have had to
set up Exim to act as my outgoing mail server, instead of just having
it hand messages to my providers SMTP server. I have set Exim's
qualify_domain value to "beta.telenordia.se".
Debian by default has these settings in the Muttrc file, which I guess
can be related to this problem:
unset use_domain
unset use_from
I have had to change the use_from variable to yes, because if I let
Exim write the From: header my name ends up as "Andr?" instead of
"André". Should I also change use_domain to yes? Or should I perhaps
use "set hostname" and set that to my domain name?
I hope someone can help clear the confusion.
--
// André
