Re: exim on a dialup

[ben <benfoley@rcn.com>]

On Wednesday 12 December 2001 11:25 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 08:04, ben wrote:
> > i've just managed to get exim set up on a dialup connection. localhost
> > gets mentioned in the headers. does that matter a damn?
>
> I once got angry mail from a guy from this list whose sendmail rewrote
> the localhost part in my headers with the machine name of his sendmail
> host. So I suggest to set qualify_domain = yourmachine.yourhomedomain in
> /etc/exim/exim.conf, where yourhomedomain is a not-official domain name
> like home or localnet. Also adapt the rewrite rule in the REWRITE
> section:
>
> *@yourmachine.yourhomedomain ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
>                                                {$value}fail} frFs
>
> This will then rewrite the mail headers of accounts set in
> /etc/email-addresses to the headers of the accounts at the ISP.
>

i'm still getting this:

Received: from ben by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian))

what's the syntax for /etc/email-addresses? i may have screwed that up.