Ascaris Lepis wrote: > Hello Exim-users, > > I am quite new to exim but I have been told that exim might be the > right solution for my problem. > > I need to rewrite the Sender/From field of an outgoing Email based on > the content of the Reply-To field. > > I need this because I am orginally sending Emails from a Software > which does under certain circumstances not allow to be set the sender > address at mail creation. I can only control the content of the > reply-to field. So I want the Software to fill the reply-to-Field > with the intended sender email-address and have exim put that > email-address in the sender/from field in the email. > > Does anyone have an idea if this is possible and if yes can tell me > how I can do it. > > I am thankful for any help in this case > > Dirk > >
Exim *can* do that, and does not in all cases even need you to create a rewrite rule. But if you are not yet using Exim, it is akin to installing a factory to make thumbtacks because half of those in the box have the heads and points on the wrong end. ;-) You'll have to learn everything *else* about proper running of Exim to get the rest of it right. If your current MTA is not otherwise broken, consider turning the 'wrong' thumbtacks right-way 'round instead: 'man mail' That executable, plus a bit of script and pipe / redirection gives you the ability to send the output of the '..Software..' you mention through a set of steps that can insure you are able to select the apparent 'From:', and in an MTA-agnostic manner, eg exim or whatever else is already in-place. Worth a look, though personally, I'd vote to fix the '..Software..' rather than add a band-aid... HTH, Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
