Re: [Evolution] X-evolution-account setting

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 10:48 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 16:04 -0800, Van Snyder via evolution-list wrote:
> > My outgoing mail isn't sent directly from my own computer.  It's sent
> > from an smtp server.  But the X-evolution-account setting is my own
> > computer.  That is apparently interfering with some setting in the smtp
> > server.  I get messages like this:
> >
> > <xyz berkeley edu>: host aspmx.l.google.com[74.125.195.26] said: 550-5.7.1
> >     Unauthenticated email from jpl.nasa.gov is not accepted due to 550-5.7.1
> >     domain's DMARC policy. Please contact the administrator of 550-5.7.1
> >     jpl.nasa.gov domain if this was a legitimate mail. Please visit 550-5.7.1
> >     https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690 to learn about the 550 5.7.1
> >     DMARC initiative. cd2si22321609plb.39 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA
> >     command)
> >
> > My IT service guys -- the guys supposedly knowledgeable about (maybe
> > even administrators for) the smtp server, insist it's because the
> > X-evolution-accunt setting is my own computer, not the domain name for
> > the smtp server.

It's nothing to do with the X-evolution-account header - it means that
you have sent mail through your SMTP server without any obvious
authentication.  Do you have to provide a username & password for SMTP?

> > I looked through all the settings for my mail account and didn't see any
> > mention of my own computer, or X-evolution settings.
> >
> > So I did the following:
> >
> > # foreach f ( ~/.??* )
> > # find $f -type f -exec grep -il x-evolution-account {} \;
> > # end
> >
> > The only files it found were in .cache/mozilla, .mozilla/firefox, and
> > files that are mail messages under .evolution.save and .local/share.
> >
> > Nothing in those files looked like settings.
> >
> > How can I cause the X-evolution-account setting to be the domain for my
> > smtp server, not my own computer?

The X-Evolution-* headers are not exposed to the outside world -
certainly not on recent versions.  Some (perhaps all?) of the X-
Evolution-* headers don't even really exist, they are inserted by
Evolution when the mail is displayed and are not present in the stored
emails.

> > Or does the above problem arise from some other cause?

Almost certainly.  I send mail through various SMTP servers and never
had problems with getting it through to Gmail.

> I also note that your version of Evo appears to be really ancient
> (assuming it's the one indicated by the Mailer header. The 2.x series
> was discontinued a long time ago. This may or may not be relevant.
2.32.3 is the version in RHEL6/CentOS6/SL6 - it's a supported
enterprise OS and is maintained by Redhat.  It is currently on version
37 of 2.32.3.  Everyone who uses RH and its clones are painfully aware
of the fact its old, but that's the hazard of using enterprise OS's.

P.