muttrc vs postfix main.cf

[Wouter Eerdekens]

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 09:03:31 -0800, Don W. Jenkins <dwjenkins at sc-zg.com> wrote:
> To all those who answered with various suggestions for my muttrc file, I
> have applied all suggestions, with no luck in getting my "From:" header
> completely under control in my sent e-mails.  The Kplug listers did
> correctly identify the problem as being not in mutt, but postfix, as I
> was able to get the last half of the e-mail address corrected by
> changing "mydomain" and "myorigin" in postfix.  Now the "From:" header
> reads:
> 
> "Don W. Jenkins<oakman at sc-zg.com>"
> 
> "oakman" is my username on my computer system, and I need that part to
> be "dwjenkins", but I don't see where postfix reads that.

First of all, there's no need to change mydomain and myorigin. All you
need to do is
create a file /etc/postfix/canonical with the following line in it:

oakman       dwjenkins at sc-zg.com

Afterwards, run 

postmap /etc/postfix/canonical

This will generate a file /etc/postfix/canonical.db

Add the following to /etc/postfix/main.cf

sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical

And reload postfix. This should fix it...

Cheers,
Wouter

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