[Techtalk] Can't send mail from emacs

[David Sumbler]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 dominik.schramm at gmxpro.net wrote:

> David Sumbler <david at aeolia.co.uk> writes:
>
> > 'mail-envelope-from' is set to 'user-mail-address', and
> > 'user-mail-address' is set to "david at ceres.staly.plus.com"
>
> so there's you're problem. just set it to the from address value
> you use in pine and everything should/could be fine.
> if that's not enough to make your provider's mail server happy,
> then you could dig deeper into emacs or configure your sendmail
> to rewrite envelope sender addresses. i can help you with
> emacs, but not with sendmail (i'm using exim).

I have changed 'user-mail-address' to "david at aeolia.co.uk", and I now
get the following bounced back to me:

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<david at aeolia.co.uk>
    (reason: 553 5.1.8 <david at ceres.staly.plus.com>... Domain of sender address david at ceres.staly.plus.com does not exist)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail-relay-2.fastweb.co.uk.:
>>> MAIL From:<david at ceres.staly.plus.com> SIZE=349
<<< 553 5.1.8 <david at ceres.staly.plus.com>... Domain of sender address david at ceres.staly.plus.com does not exist
501 5.6.0 Data format error

It seems as if I need to change the 'sender' address, but I have no
idea how to do that.  Any clues?

Thanks for all your help.

David

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