ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (02/14/91)
----- I seem to have made a mistake, or have a misunderstanding about how the visible_name attribute works in Smail 3.19. In my $LIB_DIR/config file I have the lines: visible_domains = com visible_name = sware.com And my smail was compiled with DOMAINS=sware.com in EDITME. Now, I was under the impression that this would cause mail headers to be munged so that it looked like mail going out from our site came from $user@sware.com. However, what I've got is mail in the form $user@$users_machine.sware.com. Any clues? Failing that, is there a way that I can force Smail to insert a `Reply-To:' header of the form that I want, if the user hasn't supplied one (or is this a blaspheme against the mail-header-gods?)? Many thanks... -- ken seefried iii "Specialization is for insects." ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu - Robert A. Heinlein (1916-1988)
les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (02/16/91)
In article <22025@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes: >I seem to have made a mistake, or have a misunderstanding about how >the visible_name attribute works in Smail 3.19. >In my $LIB_DIR/config file I have the lines: > > visible_domains = com > visible_name = sware.com >And my smail was compiled with DOMAINS=sware.com in EDITME. Now, I >was under the impression that this would cause mail headers to be >munged so that it looked like mail going out from our site came from >$user@sware.com. However, what I've got is mail in the form >$user@$users_machine.sware.com. Any clues? I suspect that your user agent is generating the From: line before handing it to smail. Smail3 only modifies local forms by adding the @visible_name. Perhaps you can change the UA to either use the preferred form or just omit the From: line entirely and let smail build its own. If you have source for the UA, you may find an option to do this since some mail transports won't allow ordinary users to create their own From: header lines. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us