Edgar,
Thanks for yr reply, it's the To and From headers that I want to leave
unqualified.
Tried what you said, it works, I removed the sending hosts from the
recipient_unqaulified_hosts and sender_unqualified_hosts. I was probably
getting confused between, what fields they were working on.
Thanks Edgar, your a star, you've explained it really well.
Thanks Everyone else who has read this too.
All I have to do do now, is get rid of the
X-rewrote-sender: feild, which I will do some reading up on.
Cheers
Steve
>From: "Edgar Lovecraft"<exim-list@???>
>Reply-To: "Edgar Lovecraft"<exim-list@???>
>To: exim-users@???
>Subject: Re: FW: [Exim] Unqualified hostnames in To and From fields
>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:01:46 -0600
>
>Steve Karlsen wrote:
> >
>..[snip]...
> > >
> > > I have exim running on a private internal network (was recently
> > > sendmail) as a relay, it relays traffic from one node to other a
>couple
> > > of other nodes, nothing special.
> > >
> > > However, due to the nature of the traffic, I require to accept
> > > unqualified hosts in the To and from headers (not the envelope To/From
> > > fields) and relay them as is (unqualified) to the next host.
> >
>Okay, then you 'should' be able to do this just fine as long as the
>MAIL FROM: <user@domain> and RCPT TO: <user@domain> is how you accept the
>address during the SMTP transaction.
>If you accept the commands as MAIL FROM: <user> and RCPT TO: <user> you
>are kind of out-a-luck here. follow along and see why :)
> >
> > > I have set sender_unqualified_hosts and recipient_unqualified_hosts,
> > > appropriately,
> >
>This is either the fixing pint, or the breaking point.
> >
> > > but I gather, that this just allows them to be accepted,
> > > it seems that both headers get locally qualified, as they should do,
> >
>Possibly...
> >
> > > but is it possible to turn this off? Have scoured the docs and threads
> > > on google, but haven't found a lot.
> > > It was possible to turn it off in sendmail.
> > >
> >
>--
>Okay, here is the explination...
>After double checking the DOCs myself, here is what I found:
>
>one)
>recipient_unqualified_hosts
>Type: host list, expanded
>Default: unset
>This option lists those hosts from which Exim is prepared to accept
>unqualified recipient addresses in message envelopes. The addresses are
>made fully qualified by the addition of the qualify_recipient value. This
>option also affects message header lines. Exim does not reject unqualified
>recipient addresses in headers, but it qualifies them only if the message
>came from a host that matches recipient_unqualified_hosts.
>
>two)
>sender_unqualified_hosts
>Type: host list, expanded
>Default: unset
>This option lists those hosts from which Exim is prepared to accept
>unqualified sender addresses. The addresses are made fully qualified by the
>addition of qualify_domain. This option also affects message header lines.
>Exim does not reject unqualified addresses in headers that contain sender
>addresses, but it qualifies them only if the message came from a host that
>matches sender_unqualified_hosts.
>
>three)
>http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/spec_31.html#CHAP31
>
>There are some circumstances in which Exim automatically rewrites domains
>in addresses. The two most common are when an address is given without a
>domain (referred to as an "unqualified address") or when an address
>contains an abbreviated domain that is expanded by DNS lookup.
>Unqualified envelope addresses are accepted only for locally submitted
>messages, or messages from hosts that match sender_unqualified_hosts or
>recipient_unqualified_hosts, respectively. Unqualified addresses in header
>lines are qualified if they are in locally submitted messages, or messages
>from hosts that are permitted to send unqualified envelope addresses.
>Otherwise, unqualified addresses in header lines are neither qualified nor
>rewritten.
>
>Notice the language that is used, exim only accecpts the MAIL FROM: and
>RCPT TO: commands in the 'qualified' way (i.e. RCPT TO: <user@domain>) if
>you only accept this way then you should be okay, as the next line states,
>'unqualified addresses in header lines are neither qualified nor
>rewritten.' now remember this is only true if the connecting host is not in
>either of the 'recipient_unqualified_hosts' or 'sender_unqualified_hosts'.
>
>So to try to be absolutley clear here,
>remove the nodes from the unqualified settings in the configs, this will
>leave the message headers alone. this can only be however, if those nodes
>send the SMTP commands in a qualified manner.
>
>Got it? :)
>
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>
>
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