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Re: exim questions



> > 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. 

Thanx, I'll take a look 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?

It is owned by myself and group "users", with mode 644.  The error-message
coming out of mainlog is:

-----
"IFS='" command not found for address_pipe transport
-----

I've tried playing with the quoting in .forward, but it doesn't seem to
make any difference.

Thanx!


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