[Sheflug] VM/XEMacs and rewritten headers.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Hi everyone.

I'm regularly getting bounces using VM/XEmacs.

Here are the lines from the custom-variables section of my .emacs file:

 '(mail-default-reply-to "TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net" t)
 '(user-mail-address "TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net" t)

I've got VM/XEmacs to set the From: and Reply-To: headers to
TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net, however I have been getting failure messages
from my mailserver (Qmail running locally, gateway'ed though my POP
server - mail.ecosse.net)

It seems that many mailservers are picking up on the fact that the
From: header has been rewritten from baz [at] flux.localdomain - my local
user id/address.

I know I posted on what to do here earlier, but it turned more into a
Sendmail vs Exim thread, and discussions on something else.
Dunno, unfortunately, I lost the plot. :-(

I was expecting to see VM sort all this out for me, once I'd set all
the addresses up, but that is not the case.

Strangely, even Netscape can manage to send through Qmail OK...

Clear suggestions please :-)

Baz.


Hi. This is the qmail-send program at flux.localdomain.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>:
62.172.47.250 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> ... Refused to relay on behalf
of <baz [at] flux.localdomain>
Giving up on 62.172.47.250.
-- 
Barrie J. Bremner

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