Re: [Sheflug] Reply-To headers this time.

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
> Chris,
> 
> I'd be interested to see how you've got qmail set up, and also your
> MUA.
> I'm also a bit puzzled how you are madhouse.force9.co.uk and
> infinitum.madhouse...
> 

Qmail is set up vaguely as follows...

[483%][infinitum][suck] >cat /var/qmail/control/me
infinitum.madhouse
[484%][infinitum][suck] >cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain 
madhouse
[485%][infinitum][suck] >cat /var/qmail/control/plusdomain   
infinitum.madhouse
[486%][infinitum][suck] >

I use MH (via exmh) as the MUA, and that's needed a slight hack to get 
working ... in /usr/lib/mh/mtstailor, I've added a couple of lines:
	sendmail:       /usr/sbin/sendmail.wrap
	localname:	nccnet.co.uk

and where sendmail.wrap is a script that looks like:
	#!/bin/sh

	case `whoami` in
		chris)  QMAILUSER=sixie
			QMAILHOST=nccnet.co.uk
			QMAILNAME='Chris J/#6'
			QMAILINJECT=f
			cat - | /usr/sbin/sendmail ${1+"$@"}
			;;
		*)      exit 1
	esac

which forces MH to send the mail through sendmail (well, qmail's sendmail 
wrapper, which understands the QMAIL* environment), and then the mail headers 
get re-written accordingly by qmail. Also in my static environment I have 
QMAIL* setup so that if sending a mail with mailx, elm, or similar, the same 
rewriting gets done (these call /usr/sbin/sendmail directly - which being the 
qmail-replacement sendmail means the QMAIL* env gets looked at). Essentially 
all the header-rewriting is on the MTA side...I've not config'd anything in 
MH/exmh bar that one line in mtstailor. I can't remember the exact problem as 
it was about 3 or 4 years ago I created this config... :)

In usenet, posts that have me as chris [at] infinitum.madhouse stay with a To: 
header like that - there's an environment variable (which I think various 
MUAs and News readers look at) called "REPLYTO" and that just contains my 
email address.

infinitum.madhouse is just my local internet-invalid machine name; the 
madhouse.force9.co.uk you mention doesn't exist :) It's 
infinitum.force9.co.uk (my static IP name) and infinitum.f9.co.uk (which is 
the MX entry for my machine), but all of that is secondary as all my incoming 
mail, bar a few odds and sods, goes to sixie [at] nccnet.co.uk which is forwarded 
to my f9 mailbox - and this is also the address I masquarade outgoing mail 
as...which is handy if I move ISP as I don't have to tell people my new 
address and resubscribe to mailing lists :)

> FYI:
> My Qmail setup follows the install guide, plus I've just added user
> masquarading as per the FAQ on http://cr.yp.to:
> 
> MAILUSER=TheEnglishman
> MAILHOST=ecosse.net
> QMAILINJECT=f
> MAILNAME='Barrie Bremner'

Or "man qmail-inject" :)

> 
> Qmail uses mail.ecosse.net as a gateway.
> 

I'm assuming that's an entry in smtproutes - otherwise qmail would do a DNS 
to grab the MX of the recipient's domain, and send direct there (which is how 
I have it set up, bar a couple of awkward domains which I force through f9's 
mail hosts) as I like to have the log for the recipient machine - makes 
tracing email better (plus you can mail a postmaster saying "oi!" and give 
him a log dump).

Chris...


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sixie@nccnet.co.uk        \  for then do it for the world." -- Stevie Nicks
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