muttrc vs postfix main.cf

[Don W. Jenkins]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 11:26:19AM +0100, Wouter Eerdekens wrote:
> 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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Thanks to all who helped.  After applying a bunch of fixes to both
muttrc and main.cf, I wound up with mutt ready to send with the correct
From: but postfix not sending, so I rebooted and backed up one step by
removing the line from main.cf about sender_canonical_maps, and for
whatever reason, that released the flow. Now I get messages sent and the
correct From: header. Better back up those rc files somewhere so I don't
have to sort this out again.

Don J. 

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