On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:02:21PM -0400, Sam Roberts wrote:
> Quoting Rod Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who wrote:
> > > I'm confused, you seem to be mixing IMAP and SMTP up here. Sendmail is
> > > an SMTP server and a delivery agent, it is not an IMAP server. IMAP
> > > is usually used to READ mail, and SMTP is always used to SEND mail.
> >
> > Sorry if I'm confusing things. You are right, this really has nothing
> > to do with IMAP. I'm just refering to the one computer which handles
> > mail in my network. It runs IMAP so that I can access my mail from
> > other computers so I refer to it as an "IMAP server". I only wanted to
> > point out that my mail is being handled remotely. I am refering to how
> > Sendmail is configured on the same computer (the one running imapd)
>
> Ok, so you read your mail with IMAP, which mutt does well.
>
> Mutt ONLY sends mail through the local mail system, so you need
> a ../sendmail on your workstation that accepts mail. Do you have that?
I'm using sendmail on my local workstation to send mail to my mail
gateway.
> I use nullmailer, because life is too short to screw with sendmail.
I think I'm too old already:)
> Whatever you use will most likely use smtp to forward the mail to your
> gateway (the "IMAP server" machine). So you need an smtp server on
> your mail gateway. Do you have one? It sounds as if you do, and that
> its sendmail.
Yes, I'm using Sendmail on the mail gateway.
> Then you need the MTA (the smtp server, sendmail in you say) on that
> gateway to deliver mail...
>
> What part is not working? I thought you said originally that you
> wanted to configure some machine (the workstation or gateway?) to
> forward to one of a set of smtp servers, and to reconfigure which one
> on the fly.
Mail is currently being sent OK but my mail gateway is configured to
masquerade using my ISP's domain. If mail servers typically don't
reject mail that is sent through them from another domain then perhaps I
don't have to use different servers for sending mail from me@oneplace
and me@anotherplace.
If that is the case then I still have the problem of how to configure
mutt in conjunction with sendmail to allow for multiple from address. I
assume that is what the from_envelope setting is for but all the emails
that I currently send that go
> I'm kind of puzzled, I don't know what your network setup is, or what
> you're trying to achieve, so I can't really make any suggestions.
Maybe I've made this more complicated than I should. What I am trying
to do is be able to send mail with different return addresses ie.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever I do, my email always has a
return address of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Rod Pike
rodneyp @ utanet.at
