[Alpine-info] sending mails with alpine

[Pierre Frenkiel]

I don't really understand your reply:
I don't have a somebody at gmail.com account. somebody at gmail.com is the 
recipient address to which I send the mail
I don't login to send the message, I just type "alpine somebody at gmail.com"

Pierre Frenkiel

On Sun, 9 Oct 2022, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


> On Sun, 9 Oct 2022, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

>

>> when I send  a mail with alpine to somebody at gmail.com, it arrives with 

>> "frenkiel at gmail.com" as sender, but the replies

>> 

>> are sent to "pierre.frenkiel at gmail.com". It looks like a bug, unless 

>> somebody can tell me what I do wrong....

>

> If you have an account with username "somebody at gmail.com", then when you 

> login to the SMTP server to send that message you should login with that 

> username instead of using pierre.frenkiel at gmail.com. Google rewrites your 

> From header to match the address that you use to login to the SMTP server, 

> which is pierre.frenkiel at gmail.com. This is a Google thing. Some other 

> services refuse to send your email under the same situation (From header does 

> not match user login).

>

> My thinking is that your issues would be solved if you create a role for each 

> username and use the correct role for sending email.

>

> -- 

> Eduardo