[Exim] Changing the Return-path - with filter rule?

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Author: Marc Perkel
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Subject: [Exim] Changing the Return-path - with filter rule?
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But - I'd rather do it without the -f because there are a number of
scripts that other people have uploaded and I don't have any way of
finding them all. So what I'm looking for is some sort of filter rule to
change the return-path.

Kevin Reed wrote:

>Marc Perkel said:
>
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>>I read the manual - but still don't get it.
>>
>>Here's the problem. A user runs a perl script from apache and Exim
>>generates an email message - but - the return-path is
>>apache@???.
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>>I want the return-parth to be the sender.
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>>How do I make that happen?
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> apache is the user of mail system.
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>Add apache to the trusted_users line
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> trusted_users = whatever you have : apache
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>Now from the perl program you can create the mail file first into a temp
>file and
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> exim -f senders_username@??? -t < tempfile
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>The tempfile would have the full mail file with all the headers or pipe
>the same to exim:
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> .... | exim -f senders_username@???
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>Note that on some systems sendmail = exim ... common locations are
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> /usr/lib/sendmail
> /usr/sbin/sendmail
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>etc..
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>Make Darn sure that this script is clean and doesn't allow someone to
>modify the output or you are opening the door for spammers to abuse your
>scripts.
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