Re: Problems with Mutt and Exim

[Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1NOSPAM@home.com>]

Check out the LG article at: 
  http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html

It has a section on rewriting the From address. Here's the meat:

Create this script ("outfilt") and put it in /usr/local/bin:

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  $address = 'joe.bloggs@isp.com';
  while (<>) {
      if (/^From: /) { s/<.*>/<$address>/; print; last; }
      print; }
  while (<>) { print; }

and add this to the end of the TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION section of
the exim.conf file: 

  remote_smtp:
     driver = smtp
     headers_remove = "sender"
     transport_filter = "/usr/local/bin/outfilt"
  end

shadow@tc.umn.edu wrote:
> 
> My problem in a nutshell: My login name on this machine is "shadow". My e-mail account at my university is mcmi0037@tc.umn.edu. I can use Fetchmail and Mutt to read mail from the tc.umn.edu server, and I can send e-mail fine as well. The problem is that my sent messages arrive from "shadow@tc.umn.edu", which isn't the e-mail address they have to reply to! (No reply-to field is defined either..) How can I make messages I send thru mutt & exim come from mcmi0037@tc.umn.edu?

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Mark Wagnon
Chula Vista, CA
mwagnon1@home.com