Pkg exim4 users - Jun 2006 - Need to rewrite Reply-To: and possibly Sender

I know that most view this as the wrong thing to do, but I feel I have a
decent reason why.

I have a debian sarge box running exim4 configured with
localhost.localdomain and routing through remote smtp smarthost.  Email
from it sends just fine via the phpmail module that the web site uses.

The problem is that some external smtp servers are choking on Reply-To:

www-data@localhost.localdomain.  This is an obviously unroutable
address.

The From field is being populated correctly and the phpmail app does
specify the Reply-To, but it''s getting rewritten by exim to the
www-data
address.

 

I threw this into my update-exim4.conf.conf:

dc_headers_rewrite=''$h_from: = $h_reply-to:''

Now I get in the header: Return-Path: <www-data@mydomain.com> This gets
me half way there.  Now I just need to be able replace the www-data with
the value to the left of the @ in the From field.

Any ideas?  I am a complete newbie to Exim and am suprised I got this
far.

 

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On 2006-06-18 Michael Gracy <mgracy@bellamax.com>
wrote:
> I know that most view this as the wrong thing to do, but I feel I have a
> decent reason why.
> I have a debian sarge box running exim4 configured with
> localhost.localdomain and routing through remote smtp smarthost.  Email
> from it sends just fine via the phpmail module that the web site uses.
> The problem is that some external smtp servers are choking on Reply-To:
> www-data@localhost.localdomain.  This is an obviously unroutable
> address.
> The From field is being populated correctly and the phpmail app does
> specify the Reply-To, but it''s getting rewritten by exim to the
www-data
> address.
[...]
> Any ideas?  I am a complete newbie to Exim and am suprised I got this
> far.
[...]

Would this in /etc/email-addresses

www-data: the-valid-address@you.want

work for you?
cu andreas
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On Sunday 18 June 2006 09:32, Michael Gracy took the opportunity to
write:
> I know that most view this as the wrong thing to do, but I feel I have a
> decent reason why.
>
> I have a debian sarge box running exim4 configured with
> localhost.localdomain and routing through remote smtp smarthost.  Email
> from it sends just fine via the phpmail module that the web site uses.
>
> The problem is that some external smtp servers are choking on Reply-To:
>
> www-data@localhost.localdomain.  This is an obviously unroutable
> address.
>
> The From field is being populated correctly and the phpmail app does
> specify the Reply-To, but it''s getting rewritten by exim to the
www-data
> address.
Do you really mean Reply-To:? There is no reason for Exim to rewrite it;
you''d
have to configure it explicitly. Are you talking about Sender or Return-Path? 
Note that Return-Path is normally not added until the mail is delivered to 
the final recipient, because it contains the envelope sender which is until 
then transported outside of the message itself.
> I threw this into my update-exim4.conf.conf:
>
> dc_headers_rewrite=''$h_from: = $h_reply-to:''
>
> Now I get in the header: Return-Path: <www-data@mydomain.com> This
gets
> me half way there.  Now I just need to be able replace the www-data with
> the value to the left of the @ in the From field.
>
> Any ideas?  I am a complete newbie to Exim and am suprised I<m got this
> far.
You can add www-data to trusted_users. That will stop Exim from messing with 
any headers or envelope senders and let phpmail specify any values. Which 
might be a bad thing if users can run their own PHP scripts as www-data.

-- 
Magnus Holmgren        holmgren@lysator.liu.se
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