On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 15/03/02 Kanagesh did speaketh: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm using mutt to connect to a mail server. I can access my mail box and > > receive all mails, but when I try to send a mail, I am not able to. I guess > > mutt uses sendmail in the local system to SEND mails and POP to access mails > > from the server (am I right??) . I am able to connect to the server > > successfully and access all my mails. Initially, mutt was assuming the FROM > > address as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (but it should have been > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ). I added "hclinfinet.com" to the "from" field of > > .muttrc, but that hasn't helped sending a mail out of my system. > > > > any help would be great. thanks in advance. > > Mutt expects to use sendmail to send it's email, yes. So, this is > primarily a sendmail configuration problem, not a problem in Mutt. > > You can test sendmail directly to see what it does: > > [msoulier@tigger msoulier]$ /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > testing > > Note that I hit Ctrl-D at the end to send an EOF char to sendmail. This > message now arrives in my inbox successfully, and even though I sent it from > the command-line as "msoulier", the From: field is > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", because I have instructed the mail server to > perform that mapping for me. > > I'm actually using Exim, not Sendmail. I assume you're using sendmail? > > Is your sendmail configured to deliver mail to internet hosts? If it's > just the From: field you need to fix, that shouldn't be a problem. > > In the sendmail.mc file, put > > FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl > MASQUERADE_AS(your.domain.com)dnl > > Regenerate with m4 ../m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf > (or add include(`../m4/cf.m4') at the top) > > Install your new sendmail.cf and restart sendmail. > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 > "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount > of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix had the same problem ... if you are using sendmail it seems that your mail is stored inthe queue ... so after you send your mail with mutt try 'mailq' to see what is in the queue ... if your mail is there, type 'sendmail -v -q'(as root) and your mail from the queue will be send
Oliver
