Topic: can you specify the envelope with ezmlm?

[jurjen]

Hi,
I have just installed ezmlm on e-smith 5.5, and it works fine.

But unfortunately my ISP does not allow me to send email to any recipient (except to myself), unless the sender in the envelope equals my accountname. In other words, the sender in the envelope has to be jurjend@planet.nl
The message headers do not seem to matter to the ISP, it appears they only filter on the envelope sender.

Until now I could get away with command qmail-inject -f jurjend@planet.nl because the -f switch forces the envelope.
How can I get a similar envelope with ezmlm ??  

Too bad www.ezmlm.org is down; it is very hard to find documentation.

Thanks,
Jurjen

[Charlie Brady]

jurjen wrote:

> I have just installed ezmlm on e-smith 5.5, and it works fine.
>
> But unfortunately my ISP does not allow me to send email to
> any recipient (except to myself), unless the sender in the
> envelope equals my accountname. In other words, the sender in
> the envelope has to be jurjend@planet.nl
...
> Until now I could get away with command qmail-inject -f
> jurjend@planet.nl because the -f switch forces the envelope.
> How can I get a similar envelope with ezmlm ??  

ezmlm depends on having complete control of the envelope sender address. It can't work without it. If you can't avoid using your ISP's SMTP server (but I guess you are using it as SMTPSmartHost because you have no choice) then you will either need to abandon your ISP or abandon ezmlm.

Charlie

[jurjen]

ok, I was affraid you were going to say that.

So now I start looking for an alternative solution: a program that forwards an incoming email to a list of recipients using qmail-inject -f accountname, and that also allows people to subscribe/unsubscribe from that list. I suppose a procmail / perl script should be sufficient.

Thanks,
Jurjen