Re: [Exim] Aliases and headers

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Author: me&
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Aliases and headers
Hi,

thanks for the quick response.

I have no problems getting the aliases. What I want is to rewrite the header
to the new address instead of the alias address that the mail was sent to.

I hope this clears what I want a bit

EG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yann Golanski" <yann@???>
To: "me&" <exim-list@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Aliases and headers


> Quoth me& on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:31:19 +0200
> > I forgot to mention the version, I'm using Exim version 3.12. I have
> > been going through the exim docs for hours now and I can't find a
> > solution for something this simple. If its just not possible I would
> > like to know too.
> >
> > Is it possible to change the 'to:' address in a mail header to the new
> > aliased address? So if a mail is sent to address a@??? and
> > a@??? is an alias for name@??? to change the 'to:' header in
> > the mail to name@????
>
> Well, if you are talking about an alias file Exim does provide support
> for it in the sample/simple configuration that comes with the source. It
> works very well and you can use linear searches, database querries and
> even LDAP requests to get your aliases. It's all in the documentation,
> search the specs.txt file with grep for it.
>
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