| Jeff Abrahamson on 19 Sep 2004 12:07:03 -0000 |
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 05:50:56PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:48:59PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said:
> > I have a Debian stable machine running exim where my user name
> > (jeff@host.cs.drexel.edu) is not my email address
> > (jeffxyz @ cs.drexel.edu).
> >
> > I would like to set up exim to make sure that email from me looks like
> > it's from jeffa@cs.drexel.edu. (I'd like to do it at the exim level
> > so that the choice of mailer isn't important.)
> >
> > Ideally, I'd like Debian to understand this change so that future
> > installs / updates will get it write.
> >
> > It's not clear to me that this is possible. Any advice?
> >
> > Tia.
>
> You want the 'rewrite' part of exim's conf file - By default it looks at
> /etc/email-addresses if found. If you have root on the machine (which I
> guess you do, if you're planning on doing it at the exim level) put an
> entry of the form
>
> jeff: jeffa@cs.drexel.edu
Good idea, but it doesn't do the trick. Although the docs suggest it
should. I put in that line and type
$ mail test | jeff@purple.com
and the mail received here still comes from jeff@host.cs.drexel.edu.
In exim.conf I see this line:
*@host.cs.drexel.edu ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} frFs
When I add this rule:
*@cs.drexel.edu ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} frFs
then it works.
Drat, that means I have to remember stuff when I upgrade to exim 4
when sarge is released.
But it works, so thanks much!
--
Jeff
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