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Author: Alexander Supalov
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] another identity for outgoing mail at the ISP SMTP host
Dear Gurus,

Many thanks for the help related to taming my POP3 incoming mail connection. I
can now retrieve my mails from the ISP using fetchmail.

However, sending mails proves to be more difficult. The root of the problem, to
my mind, is that:

    - I have one user id at home and another at my ISP
    - my home PC has no authorized domain- and hostname
    - my exim installation is slightly out of tune

    
As a result, my mail going out to the ISP mailhost via SMTP with return address
x@y, where x is my internal user id, and y is my host's unqualified internal
name, either:

    - gets rejected by the receiving host that says "Sender x@y must exist"
        (apparently, I don't ;-), or
    - gets delivered as from x@???, where z is the fully qualified domain
        name of the eventual *receiving* host; this screws up the Reply
        facility, etc.

        
I'm not sure whether I can trick exim into doing something for me in this case,
or my ISP should be prodded into action.

Could you enlighten me please?

Best regards.

Alexander

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