On Wednesday 12 December 2001 11:25 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 08:04, ben wrote:
> > i've just managed to get exim set up on a dialup connection. localhost
> > gets mentioned in the headers. does that matter a damn?
>
> I once got angry mail from a guy from this list whose sendmail rewrote
> the localhost part in my headers with the machine name of his sendmail
> host. So I suggest to set qualify_domain = yourmachine.yourhomedomain in
> /etc/exim/exim.conf, where yourhomedomain is a not-official domain name
> like home or localnet. Also adapt the rewrite rule in the REWRITE
> section:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
> {$value}fail} frFs
>
> This will then rewrite the mail headers of accounts set in
> /etc/email-addresses to the headers of the accounts at the ISP.
>
> The ugly thing with the rewriting is that the above rule in the
> eximconfig-generated conf file rewrites always, regardless of
> destination, i.e., also for local mail that stays on your machine or
> network (Which means that replys to local mail want to go over the ISP
> account, which is often not what's wanted). There is a exim FAQ at
> http://www.exim.org/FAQ.html#SEC241 about this. I tried to figure it out
> yesterday, with no success so far. Oh, the headaches.
thanks for the pointers. i'm assuming that i'll also need to configure
/etc/hosts to read an alias equivalent to yourmachine.yourhomedomain. is that
correct?
