Re: Mutt + Mailinglists

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday, August 13 at 11:22 AM, quoth Mark Sansome:
>" Esmtp supports sendmail envelope sender -f flag, and you are 
>advised to always enable it by adding the following line to Mutt 
>configuration file:
>
>set envelope_from=yes "
>
>I notice that I had that line in my ~/.muttrc but have at some stage in the 
>past commented it out - I can't remember why.
>
>Should I re-activate it?

Yes.

>The man esmtprc page states this:
>
>" helo
>    Set the hostname to identify as when sending HELO or EHLO commands. (This 
> is a per identity option, as it should be the name you are seen as from the 
> connected host, which may very with host to host due to NAT or different 
> naming schemes)."

The idea is that your HELO (or EHLO) commands should identify the 
sender, as seen from the server receiving your message. Thus, if you 
send from myhost.example.com to mail.example.com, your HELO string 
should be "myhost.example.com". If you send from behind a NAT, your 
HELO string should be related to whatever the public IP address of the 
front of the NAT is (provided that the mail server is not also behind 
the nat). If you send from an address that cannot be resolved in DNS, 
use bracketed IP's (as you are doing right now).

>I'm afraid I don't understand this very well, but I have tried adding 
>a line to make it similar to the successful posts (from Evolution). 
>This is my first post with it set so let's see if it helps...

That one spamassassin rule that I saw is gone.

~Kyle
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that 
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                                              -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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