[gentoo-user] ssmtp rewriting "From:" in emails...

[gentoo-user] ssmtp rewriting "From:" in emails...

[Jarry]

Hi,

I have a strange problem: whenever my web-server sends registration
emails, the sender field gets overwritten.

"From:" should be:

	My Web Site <info@mywebsite>

But email is delivered to the addressee from:

	added by portage for apache <apache@mywebsite>

Logs on my web-server indicate the mail was handed over to
the local MTA with the correct "From:" field. Logs on my
mail-server (which is a different machine) show it has
already received this mail for delivery with changed "From"
field.

In between is ssmtp, running on the same machine as web.
I'm not quite sure, because I did not find any ssmtp-logs,
but I suppose ssmtp is changing "From", simply to the user
under which the process is running is substituted into
"From" field.

My /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf (without comments) is quite simple:
root=postmaster
mailhub=mymailserver

How can I instruct ssmtp not to change "From:" fields
in emails?

Jarry

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Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp rewriting "From:" in emails...

[Jeremy McSpadden]

rewriteDomain=yourdomain.com
hostname=yourdomain.com

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On Apr 22, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Jarry wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a strange problem: whenever my web-server sends registration
> emails, the sender field gets overwritten.
> 
> "From:" should be:
> 
> 	My Web Site <info@mywebsite>
> 
> But email is delivered to the addressee from:
> 
> 	added by portage for apache <apache@mywebsite>
> 
> Logs on my web-server indicate the mail was handed over to
> the local MTA with the correct "From:" field. Logs on my
> mail-server (which is a different machine) show it has
> already received this mail for delivery with changed "From"
> field.
> 
> In between is ssmtp, running on the same machine as web.
> I'm not quite sure, because I did not find any ssmtp-logs,
> but I suppose ssmtp is changing "From", simply to the user
> under which the process is running is substituted into
> "From" field.
> 
> My /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf (without comments) is quite simple:
> root=postmaster
> mailhub=mymailserver
> 
> How can I instruct ssmtp not to change "From:" fields
> in emails?
> 
> Jarry
> 
> -- 
> _______________________________________________________________
> This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists!
> Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
> 
> 
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp rewriting "From:" in emails...

[Jarry]

While before "From" field in messages sent my web-server was:
	added by portage for apache <apache@myserver.mydomain.com>
(where "myserver.mydomain.com" is FQDN of my web-server)

After this modification I get mails from:
	added by portage for apache <apache@mydomain.com>

But it should come from:
	Info <info@mywebdomain.com>

So it is still not what I expect. I simply want ssmtp not to touch
or change "from" field, and let it to be as it is defined by MUA
(in this case it is php(mail) function of my web-server)...

Jarry


On 22. 4. 2011 19:44, Jeremy McSpadden wrote:
> rewriteDomain=yourdomain.com
> hostname=yourdomain.com
>
> --
> Jeremy McSpadden
> deface@uberpenguin.net
>
>
>>
>> I have a strange problem: whenever my web-server sends registration
>> emails, the sender field gets overwritten.
>>
>> "From:" should be:
>>
>> 	My Web Site<info@mywebsite>
>>
>> But email is delivered to the addressee from:
>>
>> 	added by portage for apache<apache@mywebsite>
>>
>> Logs on my web-server indicate the mail was handed over to
>> the local MTA with the correct "From:" field. Logs on my
>> mail-server (which is a different machine) show it has
>> already received this mail for delivery with changed "From"
>> field.
>>
>> In between is ssmtp, running on the same machine as web.
>> I'm not quite sure, because I did not find any ssmtp-logs,
>> but I suppose ssmtp is changing "From", simply to the user
>> under which the process is running is substituted into
>> "From" field.
>>
>> My /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf (without comments) is quite simple:
>> root=postmaster
>> mailhub=mymailserver
>>
>> How can I instruct ssmtp not to change "From:" fields
>> in emails?

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Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp rewriting "From:" in emails...

[Jeremy McSpadden]

What does your code look like? What application is sending the registration emails?

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On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Jarry wrote:

> While before "From" field in messages sent my web-server was:
> 	added by portage for apache <apache@myserver.mydomain.com>
> (where "myserver.mydomain.com" is FQDN of my web-server)
> 
> After this modification I get mails from:
> 	added by portage for apache <apache@mydomain.com>
> 
> But it should come from:
> 	Info <info@mywebdomain.com>
> 
> So it is still not what I expect. I simply want ssmtp not to touch
> or change "from" field, and let it to be as it is defined by MUA
> (in this case it is php(mail) function of my web-server)...
> 
> Jarry
> 
> 
> On 22. 4. 2011 19:44, Jeremy McSpadden wrote:
>> rewriteDomain=yourdomain.com
>> hostname=yourdomain.com
>> 
>> --
>> Jeremy McSpadden
>> deface@uberpenguin.net
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> I have a strange problem: whenever my web-server sends registration
>>> emails, the sender field gets overwritten.
>>> 
>>> "From:" should be:
>>> 
>>> 	My Web Site<info@mywebsite>
>>> 
>>> But email is delivered to the addressee from:
>>> 
>>> 	added by portage for apache<apache@mywebsite>
>>> 
>>> Logs on my web-server indicate the mail was handed over to
>>> the local MTA with the correct "From:" field. Logs on my
>>> mail-server (which is a different machine) show it has
>>> already received this mail for delivery with changed "From"
>>> field.
>>> 
>>> In between is ssmtp, running on the same machine as web.
>>> I'm not quite sure, because I did not find any ssmtp-logs,
>>> but I suppose ssmtp is changing "From", simply to the user
>>> under which the process is running is substituted into
>>> "From" field.
>>> 
>>> My /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf (without comments) is quite simple:
>>> root=postmaster
>>> mailhub=mymailserver
>>> 
>>> How can I instruct ssmtp not to change "From:" fields
>>> in emails?
> 
> -- 
> _______________________________________________________________
> This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists!
> Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
> 
> 
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp rewriting "From:" in emails...

[Jeremy McSpadden]

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FromLineOverride=NO

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On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Jarry wrote:

> I simply want ssmtp not to touch
> or change "from" field, and let it to be as it is defined by MUA
> (in this case it is php(mail) function of my web-server)...
> 
> Jarry




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Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp rewriting "From:" in emails...

[Jeremy McSpadden]

Sorry, that should be YES

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On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Jarry wrote:

> I simply want ssmtp not to touch
> or change "from" field, and let it to be as it is defined by MUA
> (in this case it is php(mail) function of my web-server)...
> 
> Jarry

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp rewriting "From:" in emails...

[Jarry]

Thanks for the tip, that was the point! After setting
FromLineOverride=YES
mails from my web-site have correct "from" field.

btw, I find /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf a little confusing:

# Set this to never rewrite the "From:" line (unless not given) and to
# use that address in the "from line" of the envelope.
#FromLineOverride=YES

I always thought if a value in config file is commented out,
it is a default value. So I never tried to uncomment it...

Jarry

On 22. 4. 2011 20:23, Jeremy McSpadden wrote:
> FromLineOverride=NO
 > Sorry, that should be YES
>
>
> On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Jarry wrote:
>
>> I simply want ssmtp not to touch
>> or change "from" field, and let it to be as it is defined by MUA
>> (in this case it is php(mail) function of my web-server)...


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Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp rewriting "From:" in emails...

[Indi]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 09:00:02PM +0200, Jarry wrote:
> 
> btw, I find /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf a little confusing:
> 
> # Set this to never rewrite the "From:" line (unless not given) and to
> # use that address in the "from line" of the envelope.
> #FromLineOverride=YES
> 
> I always thought if a value in config file is commented out,
> it is a default value. So I never tried to uncomment it...
>

I always thought that too, until just the other day when it 
happened that simply uncommenting a line in privoxy's config 
fixed a problem for me. I always thought the commented out 
lines were set to default values before that. Pretty sure 
*most* are, but apparently not all. Who knew?

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