On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:51:08 -0400 W B Hacker wrote: > May one ask where an address of that form is originating - how it is getting > into Exim's environment, and whether it really is at 'smtp time' (a > submission > session with a correspondent). > > as in: > > - MUA with 'experimental' settings > > - On-box (binary invocation, queue injection, smtp session) MLM, > > - script or web-app > > - *prior* address-rewrite > > or, perchance, is the '*' in your example actually a wildcard that does not > itself exist, but rahtehr represents a variety of other possible strings? > > I ask because, *as shown* the right side is not a legal/recognizable > domain.tld > format, with a literal '*' in it, never mind .admin' not being any tld or > country I'm aware of... > > More to the point, if you can share what the end goal is, the 'why you need > it' > situation, perhaps someone here may have another way that is already proven. >
I have setup Exim with Dovecot as imap server. Dovecot has such feature as "master users" - such users can login as "other-user" account, so if you want login as user '[email protected]' you enter '[email protected](separator)master_user'. Separator is configurable. When you logged in as master user, MUA (in my setup webmail) set headers from, sender, etc in format u...@domain*master_user. This prevent exim from sending mail originating by master_users. More often became situation - when I got ticket in helpdesk - "Please send mail as sender X, because he is in vacation to client Y", "Or forward e-mail from mailbox X to Y, owner of X is not available now" etc. I want exim to solve this issues, and master_user can handle such requests. With S flag added to rewrite I'm able to send e-mail, but headers still contain identity of master_user - this should be fixed. -- ## 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/
