[gentoo-user] send mail to gentoo-user locally

[gentoo-user] send mail to gentoo-user locally

[Mingfeng Yang]

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Hi,

I subscribed to gentoo-user mailing list (and many others) with my gmail
account. I use getmail to fetch emails from gmail, and use mutt to read
them. Postfix is installed in my local machine to deliver mails locally
(mainly for sending me the system logs). Now my problem is: the mail
sent out by postfix (sendmail) is always get rejected by the mailing
lists, though I set "my_hdr From: mfyang <mfyang@gmail.com>" in muttrc.

How can I "cheat" the mailing list and let my email go to everybody even
if it's sent from my local sendmail program instead of gmail sever?

Thanks!

Mingfeng Yang

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[gentoo-user] Re: send mail to gentoo-user locally

[Simon Kellett]

"Mingfeng Yang" <mfyang@gmail.com> writes:

> Postfix is installed in my local machine to deliver mails locally
> (mainly for sending me the system logs). Now my problem is: the mail
> sent out by postfix (sendmail) is always get rejected by the mailing
> lists, though I set "my_hdr From: mfyang <mfyang@gmail.com>" in
> muttrc.

Do you send outgoing mail via a "smart host" ? If not then is there
somewhere like postman@gmail.com that will authenticate you and the pass
your email on ?

Otherwise you will get blocked because you could be anyone, with any
faked headers, especially if you are on dial-up.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: send mail to gentoo-user locally

[mfyang]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:52:34PM +0100, Simon Kellett wrote:
> "Mingfeng Yang" <mfyang@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Postfix is installed in my local machine to deliver mails locally
> > (mainly for sending me the system logs). Now my problem is: the mail
> > sent out by postfix (sendmail) is always get rejected by the mailing
> > lists, though I set "my_hdr From: mfyang <mfyang@gmail.com>" in
> > muttrc.
> 
> Do you send outgoing mail via a "smart host" ? If not then is there
> somewhere like postman@gmail.com that will authenticate you and the pass
> your email on ?
Thank you, very useful information!
> 
> Otherwise you will get blocked because you could be anyone, with any
> faked headers, especially if you are on dial-up.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Kellett,        |   Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox 
> Darmstadt, Germany    |              Xemacs, Vm, Gnus
> 
> -- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] send mail to gentoo-user locally

[Stroller]

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On 20 Mar 2006, at 22:46, Mingfeng Yang wrote:
>
> ... Now my problem is: the mail
> sent out by postfix (sendmail) is always get rejected by the mailing
> lists, though I set "my_hdr From: mfyang < mfyang@gmail.com>" in  
> muttrc.

I'm not familiar with Mutt, but it looks like've got a space between  
the < and the g. Is this correct / important / relevant?

> How can I "cheat" the mailing list and let my email go to everybody  
> even
> if it's sent from my local sendmail program instead of gmail sever?

This should surely work as you anticipate. A work-around might be to  
relay through Gmail's SMTP server, tho'.

Stroller.



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Re: [gentoo-user] send mail to gentoo-user locally

[mfyang]

Stroller and Simon,

Thank you so much for the helpful information.
Finally, I changed the settings of postfix, and let all my emails relay
through gmail server. It seems work. 

Best,
Mingfeng

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 06:21:17AM +0000, Stroller wrote:
> 
> On 20 Mar 2006, at 22:46, Mingfeng Yang wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     ... Now my problem is: the mail
>     sent out by postfix (sendmail) is always get rejected by the mailing
>     lists, though I set "my_hdr From: mfyang < mfyang@gmail.com>" in muttrc.
> 
> 
> I'm not familiar with Mutt, but it looks like've got a space between the < and
> the g. Is this correct / important / relevant?
> 
> 
>     How can I "cheat" the mailing list and let my email go to everybody even
>     if it's sent from my local sendmail program instead of gmail sever?
> 
> 
> This should surely work as you anticipate. A work-around might be to relay
> through Gmail's SMTP server, tho'.
> 
> Stroller.
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] send mail to gentoo-user locally

[stupendoussteve]

There is a great tutorial for postfix/fetchmail and gmail at
http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/postfix_tutorial.html

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, mfyang@gmail.com wrote:

> Stroller and Simon,
>
> Thank you so much for the helpful information.
> Finally, I changed the settings of postfix, and let all my emails relay
> through gmail server. It seems work.
>
> Best,
> Mingfeng
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 06:21:17AM +0000, Stroller wrote:
> >
> > On 20 Mar 2006, at 22:46, Mingfeng Yang wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     ... Now my problem is: the mail
> >     sent out by postfix (sendmail) is always get rejected by the mailing
> >     lists, though I set "my_hdr From: mfyang < mfyang@gmail.com>" in muttrc.
> >
> >
> > I'm not familiar with Mutt, but it looks like've got a space between the < and
> > the g. Is this correct / important / relevant?
> >
> >
> >     How can I "cheat" the mailing list and let my email go to everybody even
> >     if it's sent from my local sendmail program instead of gmail sever?
> >
> >
> > This should surely work as you anticipate. A work-around might be to relay
> > through Gmail's SMTP server, tho'.
> >
> > Stroller.
> >
> >
>
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