testing service for mail client configuration?
I am a new mutt user - tried many other clients and finally
came to mutt. Thanks for the brilliant client.
However, i am not sure if all my settings are correct.
I can successfully send to some mailing lists, but to others
my mail goes into thin air.
Is there any such thing as an "email testing service" (which is
run by a reputable organisation)? I am expecting some service
which interprets the mail headers and validate/report the values
showing how *it* sees them, rather than what i think has been set.
Anyway perhaps someone can help with my immediate problem.
I have one email account and i send email as various identities.
Most outgoing mail is to my many Apache mailing lists, so make
that the default identity:
my_hdr From: ....... <.....apache.org>
The "set envelope_from=" is not used. I had fears that some
mail servers might block my mail if i did that. Is that a
well-founded fear?
I have recently added a "set alternates=" line, but that
didn't seem to help with my problem.
When sending mail as an alternate identity (like now) i use
the 'Esc f' to manually change the From: line.
No "send-hook"s are being used at this stage.
When sending mail, i use mutt ssh tunnel capability. This
seems to work well.
set sendmail="/usr/bin/ssh me@xxxxxxxxxxxx /usr/bin/sendmail -oem -oi"
Now to the problem. I am subscribed to many ASF mailing lists.
My mail gets through to some of them but not to others.
The mail looks okay, the From: line is correct. However i supsect
that the mail might be getting held up in moderation or even
rejected by some lists.
I tested this by sending email to a list that i moderate.
Sure enough it came to the moderation queue, even though
it appears to be from the correct address.
Can someone provide some clues please.
--David