On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:40:29PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:16:49PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > What user modifiable variable holds a user's email address in mutt? That > > is the address once a message gets sent a reader will find on the from: > > line? The x-sender field may need control too in my situation. The home > > network has got a hostname and domain on it that not only don't exist > > anywhere on the internet, the domain isn't even in any of the > > recognizeable domain tables. In order to go out onto the internet > > everything in what mutt would consider my email address for local purposes > > has to be changed to different values since my account name also doesn't > > match any of my internet account account names. > > > This is what I do: > > set realname="Roberto C. Sanchez" > set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
it is my experience that exim doesn't like that and will rewrite the from address unless you set local_sender_retain = true trusted_users = andrew on the local machine. I of course could be missing something obvious, but its what I had to do to keep from sending out mail from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" A
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