why am i sending mutt mail with my FQDN??

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2008-01-25 16:50, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> The problem with trying to use mutt, even when I reach my mailserver
> on aristotle.thought.org, is that *somehow* -- I do not understand how
> -- but for some reason, mutt tacks on the FDQN rather than simply my
> domain name.  I was using Giorgos' $MAIL env variable; now that I
> switched to Baptiste's longer method:: same thing.  mutt still
> prepends the hostname.
> 
> The following I sent to myself,
> 
> From: Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org>
> Subject:   testing
> To: Gary Kline <kline at magnesium.net>, kline at thought.org
> 
> it never reached me at magnesium.net.  Can anybody  clue me in?

That's not a mutt problem.  If you want email from `tao.thought.org' to
masquerade as email from `thought.org', you should configure your MTA to
do this (Sendmail, Postfix or other).

See the section:

+---------------------------+
| MASQUERADING AND RELAYING |
+---------------------------+

in `/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README', for more details :)