[Exim] Root is user in Envelope

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Author: Kevin Reed
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Subject: [Exim] Root is user in Envelope
Solaris 8
Exim 3.32

Hope I can explain this right...

Example of the problem.

Remote box, located on the other side of the country. There is a
local administrator that deal with very basic administraton and a
remote administrator who has real SA abilities.

    root    Is only used on the console by the local administrator.
            He can change the root password when necessary etc.


    admin   Remote user.  Logs in as admin and then su's to a special
            account, adminr for full root level access which is what
            99% of the tasks are done as while he is on.


    adminr  Remote users account with UID=0


The remote admin uses a generic email address admin@???
which the MUA on the box forces when he sends email.

Exim is it proper operation, sees that adminr = root and sets the
envelope of the outgoing message to root even though the From:
address is admin@???.

Many MTA's reject this mail as they don't take email from root.

Question... Is it possible to change Exim's configuration so that IF
the outgoing mail is from adminr, it uses either adminr or the From:
address as the envelope.

If it is simple... great. If it is a big deal... I won't bother.

Hope that made sense...

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Kevin