Author: Marc Sherman Date: To: Exim List Subject: Re: [Exim] "senders= :" in router not recognizing mail bounced by user filter?
From: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???> >
> Oh, I see what's going on. When an unprivileged user sends a message
> using -f <> to set the envelope sender (which is what is happening as a
> result of the mail filter running an autoreply), the check on "senders"
> still checks the real sender of the message, namely the user, not the
> envelope sender.
>
> This makes some sense - it means that, for messages submitted by
> unprivileged local users, you can do checks on the senders, whatever is
> placed in the envelope.
>
> Since, I understand, you are using this on a personal system without
> other users, you can get round this by making yourself a trusted user.
> See the trusted_users option.
Yes, that solved the problem. It's an acceptable hack for my
machine, for exactly the reason you suggest (actually, I do
serve mail for a small number of friends and family members,
but the account in question was one of my own, and its
password is disabled -- I can only log in to that account by
su'ing from root).
Could the "condition" router option be used to check the
actual envelope From rather than the sender?
