On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:55:36PM -0500, mustafa taha al-shawaf wrote:
> Hi group.
> 
> I am having a hard time setting up exim.  I am trying to forward my email
> to a smart host, but it isn't working.  This is the message I get:
> 
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
> 
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> 
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1475:
>     host students.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.39]: 553 5.1.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain
> of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist
> 
> As you can probably guess, my login is mta and I called my machine Tiger.
> I assume that this is some type rewritting problem, but I can't seem to
> figure it out.  My exim.conf and email-addresses look okay to me.  I
> posted them on the internet at http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~alshawaf/exim.conf
> and http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~alshawaf/email-addresses.  I know it is
> probably something stupid I am doing, but it would be nice to have a fresh
> pair of eyes look at it.  Thanks.
> 
> MA

The From: header should be configured by your MUAi (pine?).  I don't think this
is an exim issue, it's the recipient server rejecting the mail because
your From: header is broken.

Exim is an MTA and as such, attempts to _transport_ what it is given.

A


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