From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 9:34: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEAFB37B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22547 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2000 16:33:58 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 22 Sep 2000 16:33:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 20831 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2000 16:33:57 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 22 Sep 2000 16:33:57 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:33:09 +0100 Message-ID: From: Daniel Bye To: 'Rover Wanderer' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: sendmail, sender name Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:28:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You could try setting this as an option in your e-mail client program. For example, mutt allows you to specify the From: address in your ~/.muttrc. This works for me: my_hdr From: my.mail.alias@isp.domain.com I'm sure other clients have a similar feature. (This works fine for me, as I am the only person who uses e-mail on the machine. If you have to look after a number of users, it would probably be better to find a more global way of doing it - which I can't help with, I'm afraid :o( Although I understand the Bat Book is rather good!) Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Rover Wanderer [mailto:ampy@crosswinds.net] > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:06 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: sendmail, sender name > > > Hi, > I'm trying to set up my email about 2 weeks. I'm using > fetchmail to access pop3, but have troubles in smtp > sending. My address does not correctly appears in message > header. I investigated the $j macro in sendmail.conf > and domain is substituted, but name before @ depends > on username which is logged in. Can I use aliases > for such substitution ? Or may be I can write a rule > somewhere in sendmail.cf ? > > Arseny Slobodjuck > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message