Quoting Martin G. McCormick (mar...@server1.shellworld.net): > Bob Bernstein writes: > > what do you put in exim's config as the name of your smarthost? > > dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587' > > I have figured out the first thing that is wrong but am > not sure how to fix it. When registering a user ID on > Suddenlink's email gateway, I had to pick a slightly different > version of the user name than is on the sending system because > mar...@suddenlink.net was already taken.
I don't see what the issue is. "People" with different usernames send mail from this system. > exim4 prepends the > local UID to the domain portion of mailname Do you mean /etc/mailname? What's actually in there? > so the From: line is > mar...@suddenlink.net. I even tried marti...@suddenlink.net and > it predictably built martin@marti...@suddenlink.net which is > understandable but wrong. Do you mean the From: line in your email header? What are you typing in (or what is your mail client putting there) and where are you observing the changed version? > The prepending of the local UID is autimatically done so > one can enter only the fqdn of the smarthost. Enter the fqdn where? I can't follow these snippets of information without any context. Can you post your /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and a suitably sanitised /etc/exim4/passwd.client line. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150711055911.GA23479@alum
