Re: [Exim] variable From:

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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, der.hans wrote:

> Am 20. Nov, 2000 schw?zte Dave C. so:
>
> > I'm assuming this is your personal workstation. I have a similar
>
> While it is my personal box at home, I'm trying to set it up properly.
>
> > setup.. The problem is probably not the sig, but the "Sender:" header
>
> At first I thought it was due to Sender: as that's what I'd run into
> before, but Sender: is now being set to my login ID at a hostname that's
> only available behind my firewall. The mail listbots are responding to
> another address that doesn't appear to be in the message headers. I don't
> know enough about SMTP to know what's appearing in the envelope headers,
> though this seems to be where the problem must be being introduced.
>
> > that exim adds.. My solution was to just add headers_remove=Sender to
> > the appropriate transport(s).. You would definately only want to do
>
> I will try this and see if it fixes the problem. After that I can continue
> working on why that fixes it :).
>
> > this on a box that wasnt serving mail for lots and lots of users..
>
> Potentially, it might end up doing that. More potentially I will be
> setting up mail servers to do this in commercial environments and I want
> to make sure I know how.

You could also tell pine to inject the messages via SMTP instead of
locally (as would likely be the case if you were setting up for an ISP
supporting users who might have multiple addresses)..

>
> danke,
>
> der.hans
>

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