*- On 28 Mar, Christian Dysthe wrote about "Rewrite headers using exim/sendmail?" > Hi, > > is it a (simple) way to get headers rewritten using exim or sendmail (would > prefer exim since I have it working now) to what an email client puts in the > "From' field? > > Lets say I send mail with: "From [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and my local account is > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". What is the "correct" way to set up the mailer (ex > im) in this situation? > > I even send from two different acounts from my user account on my Linux box, > so > the best thing would be if the mailer looked at the "From" set by my email > client. > > I have looked at he exim documentation, but I am still confused. > > I am also pretty new to this, so bear with me. >
Look in the Exim Spec document for the 'Address Rewriting' section. http://www.us.exim.org/exim-html-2.10/doc/html/spec.html or /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz This is my simple little setup for my home machine(brian.servis.snet - bogus machine name I made up) that I dial out with ppp. ^(?i)(root|postmaster|mailer-daemon)@brian.servis.snet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffsr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffsr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffr -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." - unknown Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
