From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 11:29: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from comp04.prc.uic.edu (comp04.prc.uic.edu [128.248.230.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF96437B408 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3720 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Sep 2001 18:29:21 -0000 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:29:21 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman To: Darryl Hoar Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Qmail - envelope rewrite Message-ID: <20010921132921.D96445@comp04.prc.uic.edu> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: <001501c141f4$dc7fc030$0701a8c0@darryl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <001501c141f4$dc7fc030$0701a8c0@darryl>; from darryl@osborne-ind.com on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:54:05AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The problem is, that when email is composed and sent from the > outlook client, and the address is not on the Qmail server, the > qmail box forwards it on. But... the qmail box in on our private > lan. It has a private IP (192.168.1.X), and we are running our own > DNS server for our private IP's. > > So, based on the rejected emails, It looks like I have to rewrite > the email envelope to be from the user, in order to get it to work. > Any pointers on how to do this? Rewriting the header is possible, but it's usually not necessary, since the MUA should put something intelligent in the 'From' and 'Reply-to' fields. What, exactly, do you think is wrong with the header on outgoing messages? Example? Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message