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Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 617

[Solved]mutt & msmtp -- big problem; emails I sent have wrong FROM tag

I have configured mutt and msmtp according to the wiki.

In .msmtprc I have set the 'from' tag to be my university's email address, basically MY_NAME@UNIVERSITY.XXX.

Now, when I sent emails out to people, what they see in the from tag is USER@HOST.MAILSERVER... etc, where is USER is my Linux user name, HOST is my machine's name... This is really odd, and it appears as if I have a mailserver running or something....

How can I solve that?

Last edited by Stalafin (2009-02-07 18:28:22)

konni

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From: berlin

Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 99

Re: [Solved]mutt & msmtp -- big problem; emails I sent have wrong FROM tag

set this in muttrc:
my_hdr From: you <xx@yy.zz>
my_hdr Reply-To: you <xx@yy.zz>

and try again. i do this to use multiple accounts in mutt, so it should work for you as well.

Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 617

Re: [Solved]mutt & msmtp -- big problem; emails I sent have wrong FROM tag

You are a life saver! Thank you so much!