On Wed, Dec 31, 1969 at 11:59:59PM +0000, Benedict Verheyen wrote: | Hi, | | i've set up fetchmail, exim4, courier-imap and squirrelmail. I can | read my mail via the web by using a domain name that i registered | with ddts.net that points to my server at home. | But i cannot send mail from my webinterface. I tried to use the SMTP | method and the sendmail method.
| I can get the sendmail method working
| by adding an alias for user www-data to the /etc/email-addresses file
| but that makes the sendmail useless as other users cannot send mail
| since the sent mail will all appear to be from me (i've added my real
| email address after the www-data user).
/etc/email-addresses is only intended for rewriting addresses of local
users (formed by joining the username and hostname) to another
address.
| I see this in the email headers: Sender: www-data <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| and (SquirrelMail authenticated user benedict)
| So is there a method to let squirrelmail figure out that the
| sender is actually [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The sender is actually 'www-data' because that is the user who invoked
"sendmail". Exim (like postfix and sendmail) allows a different
(envelope, not header) sender to be specified with the -f command line
option. exim, however, doesn't allow unprivileged users to do this.
(think of a scenario where a malicious user on your system decides to
abuse it to spam or harass someone; you want to be able to track that)
You can set the www-data to be privileged, as far as exim is
concerned, in your exim.conf. Then be sure that squirrelmail uses the
'-f' parameter to specify the desired sender address.
| When i try the smtp method i get this as error message:
|
| 2003-10-09 14:27:33 rejected EHLO from arthur.camelot [192.168.0.1]:
| syntactically invalid argument(s): <domainname>.ddts.net:<apacheport>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The port number is not part of a host name and is thus syntactically
illegal as the HELO argument. This, clearly, must be a bug in
squirrelmail (possibly relating to your configuration). However, you
can adjust exim's configuration wrt how strictly it will check things
like that.
-D
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