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Re: Mutt + Mailinglists



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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