On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:07:47PM +0200, Michael wrote: > Hi, > Hi,
sorry for the delay, i'm struggling to catch up on my mailbox ... > >>> smtpd doesn't support address rewriting at the moment. > >>> It will either use the local `hostname` or the one supplied by your MUA. > >> > >> While I knew it didn't rewrite stuff, looking at it this way, it sure > >> can cause... interesting times. > >> > >> E.g. meaning if you mail out stuff with a plain "From: $USER" header, it > >> will pick up the first sendmail (or non-smtpd anyway) hostname on its > >> way... Which may work out, or not. > > Interesting indeed, and unexpected. > I didn't quite get that, can you summarize the issue ? Between the mails in that thread and the ones I received from halex@ out of the thread, I'm confused :-) > > If no solution is in near sight, i'll start waving my dirty ol' cron > > workaround again... ;-) > > > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=135280093712960&w=2 > > That would be nice, though it would only solve half of the issue... > > Michael: A quick fix for the "To: " header, which I suspect suffers from > > the same problem, should be to specify a fully qualified MAILTO address > > in the crontab. > > Well, the patch to cron would only work for regular cronjobs, but not > the daily/weekly/monthly/security scripts or anything else send to > "root". Same goes for the MAILTO, which is ignored in those scripts as well. > > Is there any ETA when smtpd will properly handle rewriting the address? > It's high on the todo and very likely to be done by 5.4 -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg
