Hi Len,
Thanks for the reply.
Len Budney wrote:
>
> Robin Bowes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In order that I have valid return mail addresses, I'd like to
> > re-write the domain in all outgoing mail from my home network so
> > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" become
> > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
>
> I do the same thing, for the same reason. There are two solutions--one
> very specific, the other somewhat tricky.
>
> 1. In your shell startup scripts, set the environment variables
> QMAILSUSER and QMAILSHOST. See qmail-inject(8) for details.
>
> This is somewhat fragile in that users can turn off those
> variables and undo your efforts on their behalf.
Also, all my users (well, me and the girlfriend!) are not shell users -
well, I am but I use various MUAs on my MT box to process mail. So,
this method wouldn't work.
>
> 2. If you use serialmail for outgoing mail, fiddle with the
> envelope sender at that time. Do this by adding a line to
> /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains which says:
>
> :alias-rewrite
>
> Next, put the following in ~alias/.qmail-rewrite-default, all on
> a single line:
>
> |qmail-local alias /var/qmail/alias
> alias-outgoing-$EXT "-" outgoing-$EXT
> $HOST [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./Outgoing/
>
> Finally, create the maildir ~alias/Outgoing, and touch the empty
> file ~alias/.qmail-outgoing-default. When you run serialmail,
> the prefix to snip off will be "alias-outgoing-rewrite-".
>
> The latter solution is odd, but it's the simplest way I know of to
> fiddle with envelopes, without doing something silly with "preline"
> and "sed". Any simpler solution would be appreciated!
I have seen this method described elsewhere but I don't (currently) use
serialmail; I was intending to relay all mail immediately, ie as it is
received.
I'm pretty sure that something in the mess822 package would help me here
but I can't for the life of me workout where to pull the mail out of the
system to do the re-write and where to inject it back in!
Perhaps someone more versed in the use of this package would care to
enlighten me? (Please!)
Thanks again,
R.
PS. I presume from you reply address that you automatically process
your mailing list traffic. If you do this my gating into a newsgroup
drop me a line since that's the next job on my list!
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