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Re: exim questions



On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> 1. Is there any way to have exim rewrite headers for only outbound
> messages?  I need to "correct" the headers for my ISP, but I don't
> really want local messages to appear as "localact@my.isp.net".

Absolutely. exim.conf has a header rewrite section. You might use the
online manual at www.exim.org. Click the documentation link and go on from
there. 

> 
> 2. Exim doesn't seem to like my .forward file, and I have absolutely no
> idea why.  If I rename the file, mail can get through, otherwise it gets
> deferred (apparently) forever.  I've been looking through the
> documentation, and I can't for the life of me see what's wrong.  My
> .forward looks like this (split for readability):


What is the ownership and permissions on that .forward file? Does the mail
user have permission to read it? What does /var/log/exim/mainlog or
/var/log/paniclog say about it?


George Bonser

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