Well, you see how cumbersome it can be: I sent the orignal message yesterday to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (which does not exist). I got no warning that the
message never arrived, but being cautious, I figured it out by myself this
morning. So I reposted the message to the correct address, still leaving
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", to which you blindly Cc'ed. Did you receive a notice
that your Cc never arrived?
>>>>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:28:46 -0200, Henrique M Holschuh
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Henrique> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Jean Orloff wrote:
>> So there is a difference between the way Exim sends outgoing mail depending
>> on whether it receives it from an SMTP session or from the command line
>> (presumably a different "ENVELOPE-FROM" in the connection
Henrique> [...]
>> this difference, but I am tired of trying. And most of all, I cannot
>> believe I am the first to encounter this problem! There must be a much
>> simpler solution...
Henrique> No, you're not. I had this problem, and also lots of headaches with
Henrique> exim not being able to handle user-extension addresses
Henrique> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) rewriting in some situations (which cannot
Henrique> be fixed without changing exim code. I asked in the exim ML ;^) ).
Henrique> I know this is not what you want to hear, but ditching exim and
Henrique> installing Postfix in its place solved the problems. I do all three
Henrique> of your requirements here with Postfix (NOT the default
Henrique> configuration. You'll need to configure the thing by hand, as there
Henrique> are no helper scripts... but at least the FAQ and docs are
Henrique> good). Postfix doesn't have very powerful rewriting capabilities yet
Henrique> (exim does have them), but what it already has is good enough for
Henrique> me.
Sendmail envelope masquerading has also been working for me for 2 years. But
Sendmail is a bit heavy for the type of occasional use I want it for, and since
Exim is kind of the default debian MTA, I switched back, recovering the
headaches I had 4 years ago with smail (apparently a grand-father of Exim?).
I might give Postfix a try, if nobody has an Exim solution, which I would
consider grotesque! If Debian can't do better for personal mail than a stupid
Windblows system... We're talking about lost mail here, so this pretty
critical!
Amities,
Jean Orloff
