This is due not to exim but to whatever MUA you are using - it is
putting in the admin@hostname, and exim is adding the Sender:
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Brian H. Nelson wrote:
> We have upgraded two sun machines here to solaris 8 (both were solaris 7
> before).
>
> One has exim 2.12, the other has exim 3.13. Both are behaving the same
> way.
>
> Since upgrading to solaris 8, some headers in the email are now being
> fudged:
> (examples)
>
> What was before:
> From: 0000-Admin(0000) <admin@???>
>
> is now:
> From: admin@hostname
> and there is also now a:
> Sender: 0000-Admin(0000) <admin@???>
>
>
> NOTE: there is a rule to convert user@??? to simply
> user@??? but i dont think thats what is affecting it:
>
> ######################################################################
> # REWRITE CONFIGURATION #
> ######################################################################
>
> # This will rewrite all headers to reflect the central mail host.
> *@*.domain.com $1@???
>
> end
>
>
> Does anyone know of this problem and/or what is causing it? In the
> process of upgrading, none of the exim configs were changed at all. I
> even tried building 3.16 on one machine fresh but it does the same
> thing. I thought maybe there is some kind of GetSenderUsername()
> function that may have changed in the new solaris? I have exim on
> solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 2.7 working fine. Only on 8 does it do this.
>
> Please email me if you have any help :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Brian
>
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