Re: please someone send me their working exim.conf for ppp?

[John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>]

Eberhard Burr writes:
> Most likely, your isp like mine rejects everything with an envelope-from
> that differs from what you've been given as mail address by your isp. In
> smail, cou can add a line with your local logname as trusted user.

Mine requires only that the envelope-from address be in his domain.  
"visible_name=win.bright.net" keeps BrightNet happy.

> In smail, cou can add a line with your local logname as trusted
> user. Then move your sendmail executable away (rename it to sendmail_ for
> example) and make a fmall script in the place of sendmail, that calls
> sendmail_ -fuser@host.isp.domain

I like this solution.  "visible_name" gets the mail out, but my username on
my machine is not my username on BrightNet's mail server so I never see my
bounces.
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