Re: [exim] rewrite or redirect?

2008-01-25 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:01:59PM +, Tony Finch wrote: > You are rewriting envelope sender addresses and addresses that appear in > the message header. Redirection only changes envelope recipient addresses. > So to answer your question you need to decide whether you actually want to > modify

Re: [exim] rewrite or redirect?

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Johann Spies wrote: > > Is rewriting the addresses the correct way to ensure that emails to > addresses that existed in the past gets delivered to the correct > present address? > > I just wonder whether, with the exception of the @exchange.sun.ac.za > addresses the others coul

[exim] rewrite or redirect?

2008-01-22 Thread Johann Spies
I see in the documentation that address rewriting should not be used as a routing tool. Our situation is like this: 3 exim servers as gateway for sun.ac.za which use a database to determine where email should be delivered for @sun.ac.za adresses. There are also some other domains for which we