Re: [Exim] envelope-sender after calling from shell

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Author: Andreas Gietl
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] envelope-sender after calling from shell
Here's my problem in detail:

A lot of the users on my hosting-machines use formmail. Formmail is wrapped
to their username and executes exim. Let's say the user has the name user1.
So exim set's the envelope-sender and the From-field in the header to the
adress the user wishes to be the sender-adress. But exim sets the
sender-field in header to user1@servername. I would not care about it, but my
users do because M$ Outlook displays this adress instead of the adress the
user wishes.

Any ideas how to solve this?

thanx

andreas

On Thursday 10 May 2001 12:36, you wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2001, Andreas Gietl wrote:
> > Hmmm ... now exim sets the sender header to "description of user"
> > <username@servername>
> >
> > Should i rewrite the sender-header?
> >
> > or is there another solution?
>
> I don't know. I haven't really understood your problem - when you said
> you could make users trusted to solve it, I directed you to
> untrusted_set_sender, which allows untrusted users to forge sender
> addresses. It sounds as though the problem is deeper than that. If you
> need more help, please post some details of exactly what you want to do
> and what you want to happen.
>
> > On Monday 30 April 2001 10:37, you wrote:
> > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Andreas Gietl wrote:
> > > > i've got a problem with exim on my multi-domain linux-boxes. When i
> > > > invoke exim from shell not being root the envelope-sender is always
> > > > set to username@hostname.
> > > >
> > > > I know i can change this by adding the username invoking exim to the
> > > > trusted_users. But i don't want to add 1000s of users to that list.
> > > > And it is not possible to include a file, so this solution seems not
> > > > to be good.
> > > >
> > > > Any further ideas from you guys?
> > >
> > > Check out untrusted_set_sender.