From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 9 10:16:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95DAE16A41A for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:16:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC11443D72 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:15:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k59AFZQG003079 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:15:36 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k59AHla6038981; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:17:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k59AHltR038980; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:17:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:17:47 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Andrey Slusar Message-ID: <20060609101747.GA38960@gothmog.pc> References: <20060607172044.GG923@localhost> <20060607230852.GA77169@gothmog.pc> <86bqt31k0p.fsf@santinel.home.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86bqt31k0p.fsf@santinel.home.ua> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.942, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 1.46, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On mail principles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:16:02 -0000 On 2006-06-08 23:15, Andrey Slusar wrote: >Thu, 8 Jun 2006 02:08:53 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >[...] >> I use mutt, which has an option to set the envelope-from address: > >> set envelope_from=yes # set the envelope-from address from From: > >> For the rest of the programs, like mail(1), my Sendmail setup sets >> envelope-from to one of my valid outside-world addresses. This is >> accomplished with the following in my `sendmail.mc' file: > > You need write the howto "sendmail for newbies" :) Thanks. I keep saying to myself that we need task-based guides in our Handbook, separated by user-type (i.e. "Sendmail for FreeBSD Users", "Sendmail for FreeBSD Administrators", etc.) Right now, I don't have the time to do something like this, but summer and vacations is a good period for a bit of this sort of work :)