Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-09-04 Thread Kai Blin
Sitting at the campfire, André Dahlqvist told: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:40:59PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > > my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre' Dahlqvist) > > set envelope_from > > But in what cases should one have to use that? I mean what I'm using > now seams to work almo

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread Dan Boger
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:53:39PM -0400, Daniel J Peng wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:40:31PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > You seem to be posting directly from your debian box on a uunet dialup - I > > suggest you check out http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul for why this is A Bad Thin

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
*[Daniel J Peng on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:53:39PM -0400]: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:40:31PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > You seem to be posting directly from your debian box on a uunet dialup - I > > suggest you check out http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul for why this is A Bad > I

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
*[André Dahlqvist on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:26:44PM +0200]: > I forgot to ask you, should I have use_domain set? I'm on dialup. set hostname="beta.telenordia.se" I don't use use_domain - just set envelope_from -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread Daniel J Peng
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:40:31PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > You seem to be posting directly from your debian box on a uunet dialup - I > suggest you check out http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul for why this is A Bad Thing > (tm). Set Exim to relay all mails through uunet's mailserver ins

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:34:32PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > What you were doing is more like mail from: - some servers tolerate that > and append their own domain name to it - others bounce the mail. I forgot to ask you, should I have use_domain set? I'm on dialup. -- // André

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:34:32PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > What you were doing is more like mail from: - some servers > tolerate that and append their own domain name to it - others bounce > the mail. But when I have tried sending mails to other accounts the From: line has been c

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:40:31PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > You seem to be posting directly from your debian box on a uunet > dialup - I suggest you check out http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul for > why this is A Bad Thing (tm). Set Exim to relay all mails through > uunet's mailserver

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
*[André Dahlqvist on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:55:05PM +0200]: > Btw, how come some people prefer to write the name inside parenthesis > like that, and some prefer to have the address inside < > and the name > before it? Oh, and another thing > Received: from 1cust62.tnt12.stk3.da.uu.net (HE

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
*[André Dahlqvist on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:55:05PM +0200]: > > my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre' Dahlqvist) > > set envelope_from > But in what cases should one have to use that? I mean what I'm using > now seams to work almost all the time too. You'd set the envelope sender when you w

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:40:59PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre' Dahlqvist) > set envelope_from But in what cases should one have to use that? I mean what I'm using now seams to work almost all the time too. Btw, how come some people prefer to wri

Re: From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
*[André Dahlqvist on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:41:53PM +0200]: > 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 my_hdr From: [EMAIL PR

From: line shows recipients domain name

2000-08-28 Thread André Dahlqvist
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 na