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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:12:20 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why am i sending mutt mail with my FQDN??
Message-ID:  <20080126131220.GA3628@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <200801251650.10700.kline@thought.org>
References:  <200801251650.10700.kline@thought.org>

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On 2008-01-25 16:50, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> The problem with trying to use mutt, even when I reach my mailserver
> on aristotle.thought.org, is that *somehow* -- I do not understand how
> -- but for some reason, mutt tacks on the FDQN rather than simply my
> domain name.  I was using Giorgos' $MAIL env variable; now that I
> switched to Baptiste's longer method:: same thing.  mutt still
> prepends the hostname.
> 
> The following I sent to myself,
> 
> From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
> Subject:   testing
> To: Gary Kline <kline@magnesium.net>, kline@thought.org
> 
> it never reached me at magnesium.net.  Can anybody  clue me in?

That's not a mutt problem.  If you want email from `tao.thought.org' to
masquerade as email from `thought.org', you should configure your MTA to
do this (Sendmail, Postfix or other).

See the section:

+---------------------------+
| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING |
+---------------------------+

in `/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README', for more details :)




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