[Pkg-exim4-users] Auto-reply mails and the envelope

Neil S. Briscoe
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:52:14 -0000

Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:25:36AM +0000, Neil S. Briscoe wrote:
>> I have a .forward file containing an exim-filter script which works.
>>
>> The reply message ends up in the mail queue.
>>
>> However, due to the smarthost that is used, the message is never sent.
>>
>> This appears to be because the envelope from is null, that is <>.
>>
>> I can''t seem to find a way to set this to be the same as the
from
>> address I''m setting.
>
> The vacation/mail mechanism of exim''s filters always send with an
> empty envelope to avoid mail loops just in case the vacation message
> itself would bounce.
>
> I am afraid that you either need to arrange with your smarthost
> operator to have them allow empty envelope (which they need to do to
> be RFC compatible, but they''ll say spam bot security yadda yadda),
or
> generate your messages with a different mechanism.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>

Thanks Marc, I had arrived at that conclusion after reading the docs
Bruno pointed me at.  I''m afraid it was a pipe to a bit of Perl script
in the end.

Regards
Neil


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