If you are asking if you can have email that is generated on the server to be from a specific domain and not the hostname you can set the option called 'qualify_domain' in your exim configuration file.
e.g. qualify_domain = example.com therefore emails generated from say a roots cron job will be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards Ed On 24/10/06, W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Grant Peel wrote: > > > Hmmm, > > > > All my hosts have thier own IP and every IP resolves back (rDNS) to the > > domain it belongs to. > > > > -G > > Quite the reverse of shared-IP virtual hosting! > > You are not only in a good position to have Exim use the appropriate HELO > for > each IP, you *should* do so. Optionally the smtp 'banner' and certs as > well. > > You can do this with a separate configuration per-IP invoking a 'listener' > daemon for each, or all within one, or on groups of 'n', even - this by > use of > the '$interface' and 'helo_data' tools with conditionals, etc. > > There are pros and cons to each approach - what you do with the queue(s), > for > example. > > There are examples in the list archives. > > Bill > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dave Lugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 10:31 AM > > Subject: Re: [exim] Outgoing Hostname and IP > > > > > > > >>On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Renaud Allard wrote: > >> > >>>If I understand you well, you would like exim to make a HELO reflecting > >>>sender's domain name? I don't think you can configure exim in such a > way. > >> > >>I think you can... > >> > >> > >>>Furthermore IMHO that would be a bad idea as you HELO/RDNS wouldn't > >>>match and some sites filter on this. Some people also filter on IPs > with > >>>changing HELOs as they mostly are zombies. > >>> > >> > >>...and for the reasons enumerated above, it's a bad idea. > >> > >>-- > >>-------------------------------------------------------- > >>Dave Lugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] LC Unit #260 TINLC > >>Have you hugged your firewall today? No spam, thanks. > >>-------------------------------------------------------- > >>Are you the police? . . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins. > >> > >>-- > >>## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > >>## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > >>## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/ > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/ > -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
