Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #500

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

Robin Gerard <robin.jag@free.fr> wrote:

|> I have a problem with the headers of my
|> messages: ( my user agent = mutt-1.3.17i,my MTA = exim)
|>                   ....
|> how should I configure /etc/exim.conf to have:
|>
|> L3: <robin.jag@free.fr>

I'm not completely sure that I understand, but I think that what you
need is the final section of exim's configuration file /etc/exim.conf.
If you look at the very end of the file, you should see a section:


######################################################################
#                      REWRITE CONFIGURATION                         #
######################################################################

In there you can put lines like:

  jim@toraigh mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu Ffr

Such a line re-writes certain headers on outgoing mail so that they
say `mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu' rather than `jim@toraigh' (the actual
hostname of this work-station). Which headers are rewritten is
determined by the single characters (the flags) at the end of the
line. This is what the various flags mean:

  E       rewrite all envelope fields
  F       rewrite the envelope From field
  f       rewrite the From: header
  h       rewrite all headers
  r       rewrite the Reply-To: header
  s       rewrite the Sender: header

This is all documented in detail in the very full manual that comes
with exim (spec.txt.gz in /usr/share/doc/exim/;  the discussion of
header rewriting is in section 32).

Jim