I did not even know there was an /etc/email-addresses I so owe you one. thank you thank you thank you !!! gayle
At 03:14 AM 12/30/2008, Renaud Allard wrote: >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 :) > -- ## 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/
