You mean ~ISHMAIL PROBLEM~ [was Re: [LI] sendmail problem]

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <r.suresh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Rajesh Fowkar:

> Ishmail (X based email client) is using sendmail to deliver the mail
> to the pop server. If I send any message from Ishmail the from field
> address goes as username@domainname.  No reply-to address settings
> present in Ishmail.

Then Ishmail is a hopelessly broken MUA (mail user agent).  Any MTA with
half a clue can set the sender envelope.  OTOH, Ishmail ~is~ meant to be
used on a LAN, for intranet mailing, as you mentioned in a prev post.

> Then Suresh suggested the following :
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi -oem -f rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> But that too did not work.

> If I create a new login *rfowkar* and send mail through Ishmail it's
> sending correct from address ( rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ). But I don't
> want to create a new user just for the sack of accomplishing the

You can't have the cake and eat it too :)

> above. Since if from other user login's say my brother/sister sends
> mail then that should also be tagged as from rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Can I send mail from login rajesh such that from field is substituted
> as rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx instead of rajesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Apparently you can't - you've tried all the methods possible.  Ask the
ishmail developer as a last resort, and then use this login / dump
ishmail.  OTOH ~you~ use ishmail and your bro / sis can use Pine / Mutt /
Netscape / KMail or whatever.

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