What do people on this list do when there local name is not the same
as there login at their ISP ? My mail doesn't make it to some mailing lists
because of the SMTP ident thingy. I'm talking about dial up users like
myself, not those who are running servers and have their own domains, etc.
For example, suppose my ID on my local Linux box is me_here but my ID
at my ISP is me_there. I can set the From: header correctly, eg.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] But, when an e-mail message gets sent, the receiving
end writes an envelope From header using information my local MTA has sent
along with the message. The From: header is okay, but the envelope From
header gets written as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The my.isp.com is getting
through because I could tell smail that my visible_name was the domain of my
ISP and not the local machine name.
It seems that MTA's look up the loginname of the user sending the
mail, and pass that along with the message. The receiving end then uses
that to write the envelope. Some mailing lists don't like the fact the
From: field and the envelope don't agree and reject my mail. I can get
others' posts, but can not post myself.
Anyone know how I can work around this ? I am currently using
smail, and had a look at exim, but couldn't find any feature that would
allow this.
Thanks,
Gerald
