Re: MTAs and dialup connected machines
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:25:03PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > > I have a little bit of a problem getting EXIM to work on
> > > a dialup-connected computer.
>
> Thank you.
> Perhaps you also got the short answer on how to avoid having my ISP domain
> quoted with mail sent locally ?
I've tried to do the same, but I haven't found a good way yet.
Some things that you should check out though, are these
(in /etc/exim.conf):
# Main Configuration Settings
qualify_domain = hem.passagen.se
"hem.passagen.se" is my email ISP, and without this
they wouldn't let me relay mail through their server.
qualify_recipient = localhost
This is necessary so that I can do "mail usel" (usel is my local login)
and receive the mail directly without going through the ISP.
The new mail will have "To: usel@localhost" but still
"From: Oskar Liljeblad <osk@hem.passagen.se>" where the latter was
rewritten by the local MTA.
local_domains = localhost
If you use eximconfig to generate a smarthost setup, it is possible
that your smarthost will be included here. But it shouldn't.
# Rewrite Configuration
usel@* osk@$domain F
usel@* osk@$domain f
The's not much to say about the first one. The second rewrites
the From field of all messages sent from here. (This is so that
I don't have to set $EMAIL or do some special configuration in
the MUAs. In mutt I used to have "my_hdr From: Oskar Liljeblad
<osk@hem.passagen.se>" but this is no longer necessary.)
Some of the things said above may be wrong, so if you're unsure
make sure you check the comments in /etc/exim.conf or the docs.
Oskar Liljeblad (osk@hem.passagen.se)
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