With sendmail, I use the MASQUERADE_AS line in sendmail.mc which works for me on restricted lists.
Bob On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, G. Crimp wrote: > > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
