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Re: [nmh-workers] Multiple identities and envelope-from

2019-07-06 17:03:37
How exactly are you submitting email? smtp, sendmail/smtp, or
sendmail/pipe?

sendmail/pipe, the reduced functionality one.  But if I telnet 25 it
seems to invoke exim directly, and changing my mts.conf to 'smtp'
(server was already localhost) accordingly seems to work.

.. and the envelope-from is now correctly 'role@thirdparty.org', so all
appears to be fine from just making that switch to smtp.

Is there anything potentially problematic I should be aware of about
invoking via smtp like this, instead of pipe?

I can't think of anything, except that you need to make sure exim is
configured correctly (it sounds like that has already been done).  And
as a warning, future versions of nmh default to the SMTP submission port
so maybe you want to add a "-port 25" under send in your profile, or
make sure exim is also listening on the submission port (587).

I personally want as few moving parts as possible so that's why I
configure nmh to submit directly to my provider's SMTP servers, but
either way should work fine.

--Ken

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