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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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