Mutt/postfix issue

Henk Koster H.A.J.Koster at xs4all.nl
Sun Feb 5 17:45:53 UTC 2006


On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:06:04 +0100, JPON wrote:

> Le Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 09:29:50AM +0100, Henk Koster disait :
>> Mail sent via mutt and postfix must appear to have come from my mailbox
>> at my ISP, H.A.J.Koster at xs4all.nl (as in the header of this message),
>> NOT from my private "username at localname.localdomain" at home. The domain
>> part is easily fixed by setting /etc/mailname to "xs4all.nl", but I'm at
>> a loss to fix the username part. Could anyone help me out here?
> 
> add this line in main.cf:
> sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical
> 
> and in /etc/postfix/canonical:
> username you at your.isp
> 
> Take a look to man 5 canonical for more details.

Thanks, apparently "canonical" is now "generic", but then it works.

-- 
H.A.J. Koster
"Behavioral axioms are right, but agents make mistakes..."
(attributed to L.J. Savage)







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