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rgoodkin
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject: Basic Help with Mail

Hello, Running Gentoo with EXIM as my MTA, using fetchmail and mutt to read messages. I'm on a dynamic IP and would like to route outgoing email to be SMTP server and append my ISP's domainname to the from field. How do I go about doing this? Thanks!

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:57 am Post subject:

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You could add the following to your ~/.mutt/muttrc to take care of the addresses:

Code:

my_hdr From: rgoodkin <rgoodkin@myisp.com>

As for relaying mail via your ISP, try taking a look at one of the following:

There is probably also something with instructions available at the Gentoo-Wiki
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