on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:30PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:58:00AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > > > My debian system is inside an intranet, and therefore I use a > > > smart host for forwarding emails. There is a problem on how to set > > > the "Sender:" header of an email. It seems that the smarthost > > > adds "Sender:user@smarthost.FQDN" since (apparently) neither exim > > > nor netscape (mail reader) put an appropriate FQDN. > > > > > > I try to fix this problem by forcing the "exim.conf": > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > smarthost: > > > driver = domainlist > > > transport = remote_smtp > > > route_list = "* SMART_HOST.FQDN bydns_a" > > > headers_remove = "Sender" > > > headers_add = "Sender: <USER@OTHER.FQDN>" > > > end > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > where SMART_HOST.FQDN is the smarthost and USER@OTHER.FQDN > > > is my email address. Unfortunately, this way will make ALL > > > emails (from any local users) to have: > > > "Sender: <USER@OTHER.FQDN>" > > > > > > Is there a better way to configure the exim.conf? > > Use /etc/email-addresses to fake source of e-mail. > > It's easy and finely configurable! > > > > Cheers :-) > > > Thank you for your email. Unfortunately, /etc/email-addresses > modifies the RFC-2822's "From: " header, and NOT the > "Sender: " one :-(. > > I guess, that this is a Netscape mailer problem, since > there is no problem with mutt. Apparently, Netscape > put a non FQDN "Sender: ", and the smarthost adds > its FQDN to that header. It's a Netscape mail problem. Get a real mail client. It's possible you could get around this by running some sort of filter on your outbound mail but I've not looked into that. I used to have a similar problem when I used Netscape for mail some years back. My local username is "karsten", and my FQDN is .ix.netcom.com. Netscape was putting these together to get "karsten@ix.netcom.com". Only problem: I'm "kmself@ix.netcom.com", in part because "karsten@" was taken when I signed on.... I finally tracked down the other Karsten and found he'd picked up more than a few bits of mail for me. There's enough brokenness about Netscape that you're far better off going with different SW. I recommend Galeon for web browsing if you've got a remotely recent system (PIII-300+), and mutt for mail, though there are other clients out there. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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