Re: exim & mutt
On 23 Nov 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> On 11/24/00 00:36:47 -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a dial-up machine and want to properly configure it to send mail
> > using exim (mutt uses it). I receive my POP messages normally with it
> > (and other mail clients), but I don't know how can I properly configure
> > exim, specially to handle the fact that my machine's hostname is dynamic
> > (it tries to use its local hostname, which doesn't exist, since it is
> > just "debian"). What should I do? Thank you.
>
> I take it you mean that your email address with your isp is different
> that your local email address, is this right?
>
> At the end of the exim.conf file there is a section for rewriting
> stuff. I'm not sure of your requirements, but I'm the only use on thsi
> system, and so I'm the only one that sends mail from it. I have this
> entry in the REWRITE CONFIGURATION section:
>
> mwagnon@smaug.com mwagnon1@home.com bcfrF
>
> Here, my local mwagnon@smaug.com. My @home email address is
> mwagnon1@home.com. So, I want to rewrite my local email address with
> one that the world will recognize in all the appropriate places.
> That's what the bcfrF is for. Each rewrites a heading in the email
> header like so:
>
> b - blind copy
> c - courtesy copy
> f - from
> r - reply-to
> F - From
>
> So whenever your local email address appears in any of these headers,
> it will be rewritten with your "real" address.
>
Interesting. I had the same problem as Carlos but was able to solve it
because I do have a dotted quad name for one of the ISPs I use.
However, I've just looked at my /etc/exim.conf, and I see that exim
itself has set up the following:
*acampbell.cix.co.uk $lookup{$1}lsearch{etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfF
Anthony
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