A couple of this to check and try. The first thing to do is check your mail
configuration.
You can do this via a command line invocation of sendmail I like to set debug mode so I
can see what sendmail sets the from header to.
Unless the machine you're sending the mail from is visable on the internet your mail
setup
should set the from headers to the mailhub. This would of course be accessable from the
outside and would in your case be known as "somewhere.com".
The next thing you need to do is add an entry to your ".muttrc" file to set the FROM:
header. The syntax is "set [EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Frank
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:53:32AM -0800, Brian Noble wrote:
> I am using mutt on an internal screened network and it seems that somehow my
>hostname and domainname are not getting put together properly. Let me explain.
>
> My FQDN machine name is bnoble.inhouse.us.lan (this is not the actual name) and the
>mail server that I am using is named mail.us.lan (again, this mail server is only
>internal). But, when the email goes out it should use a header of
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] as the sender. It does not do this as it should. My email goes
>out with the sendname of [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hence, some mail servers that I am sending to cannot resolve
>the sender domain and never accept the email. (This is a guess, but I see the mail
>still in my queue as "deferred" for this reason) I think that they think I am trying
>to relay mail or something.
>
> I can use netscape messenger on my system to send email to the same mail servers
>that are complaining about the mutt mail without a problem. This leads me to believe
>that mutt is at issue rather than any network configuration on my side (which I still
>highly suspect, but cannot prove given the fact that netscape msgr works fine).
>
> Any ideas?
