> From: Philip Hazel [
mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:47 AM
> Subject: RE: [Exim] Translating Sendmail....
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Kevin Reed wrote:
>
> > So the address which came in like
> username@??? to the
> > mail host called mailhost.domain.name sends the message out to the
> > destination as username@???@mailhost.domain.name
>
> > The last time I asked about rewritting, it was a similar
> type address.
> > Phillip said it was illegal, but that is what it is looking for.
>
> It is indeed syntactically invalid. The valid format is:
>
> "username@???
>
> > Is there a way to get Exim to duplicate this?
>
> Not with the invalid format, I'm afraid. At least, I don't
> think so. There may be loopholes, but I wouldn't rely on them.
How would I attempt to get the result as
"username@??? then?
I don't know if the receiving end would take that... But I don't know until
I give it a try.
> > I think what I'm looking for is a way to rewrite the Envelope To:
> > address. Can I do this in the transport with a headers_rewrite?
> >
> > headers_rewrite = ????? Ef
>
> headers_rewrite rewrites, er ... headers. It does not rewrite
> the envelope. There is no way to rewrite the envelope
> recipient at transport time.
I may be using the wrong terms... This will be at best temporary as this
mess is actually going to shift to the parent company when the servers move
into their own DMZ. But I'd like to figure out some way to get Exim to do
it now if possible.
--
Kevin
