[Gllug] exim & reply-to headers

[Bruce Richardson]

On 13/03/02, 16:30:33, "Paul Brazier" <pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk> wrote 
regarding [Gllug] exim & reply-to headers:


> I've now got my Debian unstable up and running nicely on my home PC and
> very impressed with the automatic update features, especially
> considering recent security problems (but only really useful if you have
> a broadband connection I'd say). Still struggling with ALSA though.

Download the alsa source from the alsa site.  Works fine that way.

> Exim is sending mail out OK but some SMTP servers are rejecting it.
> I'm fairly sure this is because my "From:" header is the actual email
> address but my "Reply-To:" header is just "paul at localhost" (I don't have
> a domain name at home).

The default config file, as produced by the eximconfig tool, has a 
rewriting rule that will do header and envelope rewrites for you out of 
the box.  All you need to do is add a line to /etc/email-addresses like

paul	paul at foo.com

and it will do the business for you.

-- 

Bruce

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