----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:06 PM Subject: Re: Home Mail Server
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:51:41AM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:22 AM > > Subject: Re: Home Mail Server > > > I've not followed this thread too closely. > > Are you using exim4? I'm not sure if this works with exim3 or not. Hi David, no sorry, I'm now using sendmail. I was initially using exim, but moved to sendmail because of mimedefang's dependency on it. I wasn't aware of exiscan-acl at the time. > Are you letting exim rewrite the username? If not, you should probably > do that. Then have the mail client send the email with the From: header > with the local username. This is where I had problems with exim, but now I have sendmail running like a charm, rewriting external addresses and leaving internal ones alone. > At first I had my rewrite rule in the Rewrite section of the > exim{,4}.conf file. It was doing what I think yours is doing, rewriting > the From: for ALL mails. > > I then commented this line out and added two lines under "remote_smtp": > > headers_rewrite = [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] f > return_path = [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm not sure if the "return_path" is necessary or not, but it doesn't > seem to hurt at least, and _could_ be needed anyway. > > Note that I'm the only user, but you should be able to use a lookup rule > in the rules for multiuser systems. > > Now, the rewrite happens only if you send mail out to the net. > > One further note. This is for smart_host usage, and not for direct mail > hosting. But I'm sure that a similar rule could be implemented for > this, too. > I'm using the smart host configuration and fetchmail to get the messages from my ISP. Thanks for your reply anyway David, I'll archive it for future reference if I end up using exim with exiscan-acl or anything like that. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]