On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 17:12, John (TJ) Penton wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Mike wrote:
>
> > I am using exim-3.35 with evolution as my mailer and a wierd problem has
> > arisen
> >
> > The email address on outgoing mail is being written as
> > mike@<host>.localdomain in the recieved from header
> >
> > instead of mike@<my mail domain>
> >
> > in /etc/exim.conf I have
> > qualify_domain = <my mail domain>
> >
> > however this does not seem to be working
> >
> > my from address is correct on mail, but because the recieved header is
> > pointing to localhost, delivery fails when the other end does an mx
> > lookup
> >
> > Anyone ny ideas about this
>
> Firstly, you seem a little confused about headers and what MTAs look at:
> The "Received:" header is not used anywhere in the main delivery process.
> Mail Transfer Agents (such as Exim) use the envelope from and to
> fields that are passed at SMTP time to decide how to deliver a message and
> who to send an error to if necessary.
> Mail User Agents use the headers in the email when deciding who to reply
> to; specifically, they normally use the "From:" header.
> The "Received:" header is merely an informational thing. Eact MTA that an
> email passes through will normally (but not always) add such a header to
> describe the state of the email it deals with. Specifically, it will
> often list the envelope to field.
>
> It sounds like your mail user agent is setting the From: and envelope from
> domain to <host>.localdomain. Exim will not change this - qualify_domain
> is only for mail that is received with unqualified envelope fields: ie.
> completely without a domain.
>
> If you want Exim to change mike@<host>.localdomain into mike@<my mail
> domain>, you will need to use header re-writing, which is described in the
> Exim documentation.
>
> HTH
>
> John
I solved the problem and it had NOTHING to do with headers
I needed to set primary_hostname to my mail domain
never come across it before - picky smtp servers at the other end
(BTW - can people reply to the the list, not to me)
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