On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 06:54:36AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > 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. > Done that... > >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 Thanks for all your help... I have also tried switching to msmtp and now it seems to work just fine (I have successfully re-subcribed to the Spamassassin mailing list.) Thanks again... Mark
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