Date: 10 Aug 2001 10:57:02 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnus and exim - Machine name appears in headers Message-ID: <86pua4i6fl.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <86ae1cji9r.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> References: <86ae1cji9r.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk>
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Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using gnus in xemacs as my mail client and exim as my MTA.
> When I do a mailq on the server after sending a message from gnus, I
> get something along the lines of the following :
>
> 3m 1.1K 15U3fP-0006JC-01 <waynep@pan.domain.com>
> recipient@somedomain.com
>
> My problem is that the address that should show up in place of
> waynep@pan.domain.com is wayne.pascoe@domain.com
> Because it is using the user@host value here, I am not able to mail
> certain servers. I get the following kinds of messages in my exim
> mainlog:
>
> 2001-08-07 11:01:02 15U3fP-0006JC-01 SMTP error from remote mailer
> after RCPT TO:<recipient@somedomain.com>: host smtp1.somedomain.com
> [64.40.111.31]: 450 <waynep@pan.domain.com>: Sender address
> rejected: Domain not found
Ok, this is a solution in case anyone else gets whacked with this kind
of problem. The problem is mostly that *nix mailers behave as they
should, not how Outlook express does :) This means that by default the
envelope from address is user@hostname.
What I have done to get around this is to add a rewrite rule to my
exim.conf file as follows :
*@pan.domain.com ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/mail/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF
This goes in the rewrite section
The contents of /etc/mail/email-addresses are quite simply
waynep: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk
This means that all outgoing mail is re-written with a returnable
envelope-from address.
Hope that helps someone .
--
- Wayne Pascoe
E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk
Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668
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