Re: HELP with From: address

Paul Newhouse <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exmh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>  Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:11:46 -0700
>  From: "Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
>  Message-Id: <[email protected]>
>  Status:   
>  
>  > Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:55:18 GMT
>  > From: Paul Newhouse <[email protected]>
>  > Sender: [email protected]
>  > 
>  > I'm using version 2.6.3 on NetBSD.
>  > 
>  > The "From:" address comes out as:
>  > 
>  >   <username>@<hostname>.<domainname>
>  > 
>  > Since the <hostname> in most cases has port 25 blocked
>  > I'd like to have the "From:" address come out as:
>  > 
>  >   <username>@<domainname>
>  > 
>  > How do I make exmh format the "From:" address the way I want?
>  
>  That depends. :-)
>  
>  Do you use SMTP directly or pass the message to an MTA via sendmail or
>  some other MUA? This is set up in mh (or nmh) in mts.conf.

DOAHHH!!!! *8^(  Never thought to look at mts.conf.

Thanks,
Paul


>  I pass the message via SMTP to localhost where I have postfix set up to
>  change the From: address to [email protected] and send it out, but there
>  are lots of ways to deal with this depending on the software you use.
>  -- 
>  R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
>  Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
>  Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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