Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > One thing you might look into is not writing [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the > rwriting rule, but instead [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your mail program > will put that in the From: header, whereas fetchmail will put > [EMAIL PROTECTED], avoiding the rewrite (

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-18 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:13:37PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> Apparently I've given exim bad info, but not at all clear how to > >> tell exim to address my mail with newsguy but I'm not really > >> it... hehe. > >> > > > > exim uses ad

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Taking your clue and adding to this existing entry: > ># This rewriting rule is particularly useful for dialup users who ># don't have their own domain, but could be useful for anyone. ># It looks up the real address of all local users in a fi

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Thanks I read thru a little of exims documenation about rewriting. I > showed a lot of tenacity, and didn't jump off a bridge or shoot myself > after the first paragraph. > > Near as I can tell, the whole section on rewriting is basically > unparsable by regular humans. I know not one whit

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-17 Thread Harry Putnam
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Apparently I've given exim bad info, but not at all clear how to >> tell exim to address my mail with newsguy but I'm not really >> it... hehe. >> > > exim uses address rewriting. You can either do this directly in the > exim file (look at

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-17 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry> So my exim settings on these points look like: Harry> qualify_domain = newsguy.com local_domains = Harry> localhost:newsguy.com:local.lan:dslextreme.com Harry> local_domains_include_host = true Harry> local_domain

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Apparently I've given exim bad info, but not at all clear how to tell exim > to address my mail with newsguy but I'm not really it... hehe. > exim uses address rewriting. You can either do this directly in the exim file (look at the last section) or use /etc/email-addresses. [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-17 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:41:19PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > After getting a little experience with exim, I think I've done my last > painful config hairpulling session with sendmail. And have moved > other machines not running debian to exim too. > > I think I may be botching my config with o

exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
After getting a little experience with exim, I think I've done my last painful config hairpulling session with sendmail. And have moved other machines not running debian to exim too. I think I may be botching my config with old hold-over sendmailisms. First let me set down the basic details of t