Re: how to fake from address in an email

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Carel Fellinger" <cfelling@iae.nl> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:39:08PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> ...
> > If they're using exim it's just a matter of adding a an appropriate
> > rewrite rule, no need to worry about relaying or anything like that. I
> > think that when you install exim there's even a nice setup for you
> > already in /etc/exim.conf, you just need to uncomment it and add the
> > alias to /etc/email-addresses. For example, at the end of my
> > /etc/exim.conf file I have:
> > 
> > *@hennigan.bogus        ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
> >                                                 {$value}fail} bcfrF
> > 
> > The file /etc/email-addresses has the following line it:
> > 
> > glhenni: glhenni@sandia.gov
> > 
> > The domain of my little LAN at home is hennigan.bogus so any email I
> > send out would, for example, have "glhenni@hennigan.bogus" as the
> > address if I didn't do something with it. Obviously there aren't a
> 
> I always wondered how this works. Can you still deliver mail in your
> local domain, say if you do: mutt -s hallo glhenni </dev/null
> would you get that mail, or would it first be sent to your smarthost?

Not with my configuration. I have seen that question asked quite a few
times on this list though so you might browse the archives for an
answer. From what I remember it's not an easy task to accomplish with
exim. 

Gary