On Monday 27 February 2006 08:57 am, Aaldijk Arno wrote: > Hi, > > My problem is that email forwarded by exim from root to my private email > address still shows "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in its address header, instead > of To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in its To: header. Because of this, some of > my emails do not get delivered. > > How can I configure exim4 to make it work like that? > > I am successfully using gmail as an smtp smarthost, as per the > instructions found here: http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 > I want all emails to root forwarded to my email address, and this works > only partially at the moment. > > My /etc/aliases contains the following entry: > root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > My /etc/mailname contains: > localhost >
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and in one of the questions (it might be the first one related to hostname/domainname) you need to put in domain.fi (instead of the default of 'localhost') and it should work. > > > This test mail: echo "my test" | mail -s "test message" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Results in the following message: (domain names changed) > <...> > Received: from localhost ( [62.78.229.194]) > by mx.domain.com with ESMTP id > l22sm36093nfc.2006.02.27.06.46.12; > Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:46:12 -0800 (PST) > Received: from root by localhost with local (Exim 4.50) > id 1FDjda-0000Qb-1Z > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:46:10 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: test message > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <...> > > If I send email like this: > echo "my test" | mail -s "test message" root > > The message does in fact arrive at the destination, but looks like the > following (and triggers spam filters) > <...> > Received: from localhost ( [62.78.229.194]) > by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id > d2sm3352990nfe.2006.02.27.06.49.30; > Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:49:31 -0800 (PST) > Received: from root by localhost with local (Exim 4.50) > id 1FDjgn-0000Ql-4n > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:49:29 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: test message > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <...> > > Thanks for any help. > > Arno Aaldijk -- anoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
