Re: [Exim] Strange source address

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Author: James Collins
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To: Dave, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Strange source address
> please bare with me :)

    Sorry, we're not that kind of list :) .. Try one of the xxx rated ones
:)


    ... But we _will_ try to _bear_ with you :)



> I have a website which uses one of our mailservers (running exim4) to send

a
> confirmation email to new users who sign up at the site. This is all

working
> great however when the users recieve this, the "From:" field shows
>
> www-data [www-data@???]; on behalf of;
> webmaster@???
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance!


    Sounds like it's using the userid of the web server software. As I
recall, I got around that somehow... I had to make the userid of the
webserver software (Usually Apache for Apache webserver software) allowed to
alter the from address.  Ah yes. I added this line to the exim.conf file


trusted_users = mail:majordomo:gizmail:apache

    Which also made mail, majordomo, and gizmail trusted users, because they
needed to do similar things.


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