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:
>
> > 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)..
>
> Tried that and that didn't fix it either. In setting this up in the near
> future it would be in an office situation where there would be a mix of
> using the MTA as a smarthost for client machines and people sshing to the
> mail server to use pine/mutt locally. The first way is probably the more
> intelligent way to handle mail :).

For non-technical end-users, yes.. Personally I couldnt stand to use
POP (or even IMAP), or anything other than pine..

> OK, found a workaround. This is in pine, not exim. Before I get the addy

Ah yes.. I got bit by that also.. You have to use a role to set the
envole sender.. Setting the From header by itself will not do it..

> up and going (and even for a few that I don't use very often) I just
> change the From: header from within pine and don't setup a role. I turned
> on debugging for exim and noticed that mail was coming from
> "der.hans@..." not from "newrole@...". The From: header was still being
> set correctly, but pine seems to be using the roles pre-configured
> From: header when sending the mail.
>
> After establishing a role for the new addy and using it everything worked
> fine.
>
> Note all of my messages to the exim-users list prior to this were done by
> manually editing the From: header at the time of writing the mail, so this
> usually works :).
>
> Dave, thanks for your suggestions.
>
> cioa,
>
> der.hans
>

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