Hi, I tried the same and worked. I think a secure way of get the conversion
home (non existent) email address ----> real email address is defining your own From: header in your .muttrc: my_hdr From: email-address Try it and tell me if it works for you. Bye. On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:27:25AM -0400, Peter Mickle wrote: > hi and thanks for taking the time to look at another exim question... > > i am using exim together with mutt on a dial-up slink machine, and i have > modified the /etc/exim.conf per the Linux Gazette article by Jan Stumpel, as > suggested on this list previously. > > everything works as described except the "headers_remove" seems to work > sometimes only. the final lines of the TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION section of > my exim.conf file are: > > remote_smtp: > driver = smtp > headers_remove = "sender" > transport_filter = "/usr/local/bin/outfilt" > end > > by sending various test mails, i know that sometimes at least the "sender" > header is successfully removed (or in any case, it doesn't appear on the > recipient's copy)...other times, the header: > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > is included and mail is successfully delivered despite the fact that > london(my local username)@pieno(my local machine)panix.com(my isp) is a > non existent address...other times, the much more serious problem that > mail leaves my machine (no indication of rejection in mainlog, rejectlog, > or paniclog) and never arrives at its destination occurs (without > notification to me). > > thanks again for taking a look at this problem, and my apologies if the > solution has already been posted or is otherwise obviously evident. any > help will be appreciated. > > peter > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >