Hello,

windy_1 wrote:
> I need help making exim4 set the  FROM: field to a specific user
> 
> I really have RTFM ... I obviously don't understand what I read. I am trying 
> to get exim4 to send all mail from bugzilla at virtualinstruments.com (with 
> the at the thing over the 2 which I didn't use so this email program would 
> not code it as an email address) 
> Instead it sends it from www-data at virtualinstruments.com
> if I do an ls -l in the bugzilla directory the owner shows as www-data 
> that is what bugzilla did when it installed itself from binary because I 
> spent four days and could not get the source to install. 
> [note: we will not go into the three weeks I beat my head into a wall to get 
> decode::detect to install so I could import the old bugzilla data base (one 
> must install g++ but no one or nothing tells one that - I finally googled 
> each and every error line and finally found one had something to do with c++] 
> okay so now all I want to do is communicate with exim4 that no matter what or 
> whom passes it email to send, it is to put bugzilla at virtaulinstruments.com 
> in the from: in the headers. 
> I have tried everything in the docs that appeared to relate as in 
> untrusted_set_sender = * 
> ??? 
> do I sent that to 
> untrusted_set_sender = bugzilla at at virtualinstruments.com 
> or 

As it seems you are running Debian or Ubuntu. Have a look at
/etc/email-addresses and put
www-data: [email protected]

This assume that you are running a single web app using mail on this server.


> I'm getting to think windows might have a good side and that is scary 

Scary, indeed :)

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