Re: [SM-PLUGINS] from address in sent folder is [unix account]@domain.com using VLOGIN 3.3 and SM1.4.3a

[<sa...@de...>]

Hi Paul

Thanks for the response

>> I am using SM1.4.3a with the VLOGIN plugin 3.3 and the compatibility
>> plugin.
>>
>> I have many domains being served from just the one SM installation.
>>
>> Everything seems to work fine except the following:
>>
>> In my /etc/mail/virtusertable I have
>
> So I take it you are using the $sendmailVirtualUserTable setting?
> Please include more specifics.
>

Yes. I am using sendmailVirtualUserTable option.

Sendmail also has the genericstable option which I am utilising. I assume
SM does not need to know about that, but basiclly I have exactly the
reverse mapping in that file:

devpac_saviz               sa...@de...


>> sa...@de...                devpac_saviz
>>
>> I login to SM with the email address "sa...@de..." and password for
>> the devpac_saviz unix user. When I send an email to anyone, they get an
>> email from sa...@de... which is the desired effect. However, if I
>> then go to my own sent mail folder and look at the from address of the
>> email I just sent, I see dev...@de...
>>
>> Why is this? I should see sa...@de.... The user should never see
>> thier true unix username.
>
> I suspect the correct FROM name comes through only because you've set it
> up as desired in Options->Personal Information.  Otherwise, your login
> username would be used, which is in fact your unix username.

MY "Options - Personal Information" is completely empty and has never been
set. I had this thought exactly. But was surprised to see it empty.

>The best
> solution, of course, is not to use unix usernames in a virtual hosting
> environment,

Can you suggest a better method. I would grately appreciate it.

>but otherwise, without looking closer, you should read ALL
> of the headers of a mail sent from that account.  If your unix username
> isn't anywhere in those headers, then at least the problem is only in
> the interface (which is probably just going to be a limitation of your
> email system's implementation).

here is an example of one of the headers. As you can see my unix username
is in the header. But I do not know why. The from address should be
sa...@de... and not dev...@de....

Received: from 62.49.16.38
     (SquirrelMail authenticated user devpac_saviz);
     by www.devpac.net with HTTP;
     Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:27:32 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: <33450.62.49.16.38.1090441652.squirrel@62.49.16.38>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:27:32 +0100 (BST)
Subject: d
From: dev...@de...
To: sa...@um...
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a
X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal

here are some of my VLOGIN options which may be of interest:
$sendmailVirtualUserTable = '/etc/mail/virtusertable';
$removeDomainIfGiven = 1;
$smHostIsDomainThatUserLoggedInWith = 1;
$translateHostnameTable = '';
$dontUseHostName = 0;

everything else is pretty much default.

Awaiting your response

Sav
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