Help getting mutt and ssmtp to use non-default "From:" address

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:34:43PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>My current remote inbox at cotse.net has problems with email from
>tlug.  I've unsubscribed my regular waltdnes.org email address, and
>subscribed my Gmail address.  Google allows me to POP email directly
>from their server, and into my mutt Maildir.  So far so good.
>
>The problem is that I can't send as my_email_address-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org from my
>home machine.  No matter what I do, the "From:" always comes out as
>waltdnes aht-sign waltdnes dot org, when I send a test message to my
>dialup account.  What do I have to tweak?

Probably, you need to put "set envelope_from" in your .muttrc.  Why this
is not the default I'll never know though.  The other possibility is
that your MTA is setting this.  I have this setting in my
postfix/main.cf:

# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no

Take a look at those types of things first, and then we'll dig deeper.
-- 

yours,

William

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