Hi,
I sent a mail to exim-users a month ago about my difficulties with
rewrite rules not being applied when using a forwardfile director.
I didn't get any replies, so I've left it a while before trying again.
I'd also appreciate any suggestions of more details I could include or
how I could be clearer to increase my chances for assistance :-)
If I am doing wrong by posting again, my apologies. I considered
posting simply the url to my previous message, but I presume that
would be worse because then people would have to follow it.
My original post follows (althought this time I have appended a Z to
my address, so it is spread over the internet a little less...):
I'm using Exim version 3.34 #3 built 04-Jan-2002 11:25:07
I have a set of addresses in /etc/exim/mailinglists/us, and the
following in my directors configuration:
lists:
driver = forwardfile
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
reply_transport = address_reply
domains = haus
file = /etc/mailinglists/${local_part}
no_check_local_user
forbid_pipe
forbid_file
errors_to = nick-errors@???
I also have a bunch of rewrite rules such as
*@*.haus $1@haus
nicholas@haus nick@??? Ffrs
so that any machine inside my LAN can easily send mail, with a from
address such as user@???, which is then rewritten to their
correct address. I don't want to rewrite To: addresses, because
user@haus is deliverable, and I'd rather mail not try leave the LAN
only to come back in.
This appears to work just fine. If I send myself a mail via a simple
"echo test | mail nicholas" the mail starts with:
>From nick@??? Sat Apr 27 16:52:26 2002
Return-path: <nick@???>
*However*, if I do "echo test | mail us" in order to send mail to all
the people listed in mailinglists/us, those two addresses stay as
nicholas@haus in the mails people receive:
>From nicholas@haus Sat Apr 27 16:33:23 2002
Return-path: <nicholas@haus>
(The rest get rewritten ok, for example
From: Nicholas Piper <nick@???>
To: us@haus )
Have I forgotten to set something that will cause the return-path
address to be written when using a forwardfile director ? I need it
rewritten, else I get bounces such as :
xxxxxx@???
(ultimately generated from us@haus)
SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<nicholas@haus> SIZE=1697:
host vimg1.reading.ac.uk [134.225.112.81]: 550 rejected:
cannot route to sender <nicholas@haus>
Where xxxxxx@??? is either listed in
/etc/exim/mailinglists/us OR is specified in a users .forward file.
Thanks for any help :-)
Nick
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