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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I'd really like to get the system log summaries outside of a bounce
> message. Ideally, I'd like the mail to get sent using the machine's
> external host name as the address in the outgoing SMTP envelope. (And
> I'd prefer not to set this explicitly, since I do get an IP address
> and a host name via DHCP.) Failing this, I'd like to send mail out
> through my provider's mail server, and use some address as the SMTP
> sender. Can Exim deal with this setup, and if so, how? Would some
> other SMTP daemon be a better choice here?
I've had the same problem, and solved it with sender rewriting in
exim. This is what I have at the end of /etc/exim.conf:
# This rewriting rule is particularly useful for dialup users who
# don't have their own domain, but could be useful for anyone.
# It looks up the real address of all local users in a file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF
# End of Exim configuration file
The contents of /etc/email-addresses:
# This file contains email addresses to use for outgoing mail. Any local
# part not in here will be qualified by the system domain as normal.
#
# It should contain lines of the form:
#
#user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#otheruser: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phil: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here, "phil" is my username on the workstation "fury.brutsche.com" (notice
it's not resolvable). The rewrite rule will replace
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (which shows up in messages sent via pine) with
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I've had no problems since making this change.
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Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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