Re: root's offsite mail
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:20:38AM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * root [090109 09:04 -0800]
> > How can I get 'root' out of the 'From:' line of root's offsite mail?
> > I've scanned the docs for exim4, mutt and mailx on this Debian
> > etch(mostly) system but nothing found so far.
> > I know I can send mail as another user but would rather
> > find a solution that doesn't necessitate that.
> > I tried Google but found no answer there.
>
> echo "root: 'your username' >> /etc/aliases.
>
> In that case sendmailbased MTA's like exim sends root's mails to
> 'your username'.
This does not rewrite the From header or Sender SMTP header on outgoing
messages.
I don't see any exim users replying (on postfix I'd use sender_cannonical).
/etc/exim4/conf.d/rewrite/31_exim4-config_rewriting looks promising, but
I can't help further.
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