David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I emailed about this a couple of days ago, and still haven't managed > to solve > the problem, so I thought I'd try again > > I'm running exim, pine and potato on a dialup machine. > > I want to my actual email address to be attached to messages on the > way out > and have put a line in /etc/email-addresses to do this.
I haven't been following the thread, so excuse me if I repeat something others have already said. I too use exim. My hostname on my machine is scgf. My username is gsmh. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] In my /etc/exim/conf I have these lines: qualify_domain = gmx.net qualify_recipient = scgf.gmx.net local_domains = localhost:scgf.gmx.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not really exist apart from on my local machine. I found this ensured that any mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] got routed locally rather than going through my IP and it also means that mail is correctly handed on to exim after being fetched by fetchmail in order to be sorted according to the filters in ~/.forward. 'qualify_domain' means that @gmx.net is appended to the username of all outgoing emails - which is surely something like you want. I have another user on my machine who logs on as 'scott' but his email address is '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Exim provides an excellent re-wite facility. I added this line in /etc/exim.conf: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffsr Any email coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (generated automatically by exim) is then re-written to show the sender as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use Ishmail as my mail user agent and can set up different identities - say for work and personal use, but that is a different issue. Hope this helps a little. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux
