Philip,
Thanks for yr reply, although I think I was getting a bit confused about
what the sender and recipient_unqualified_hosts did, I had them set, so it
was qualifying the To and From headers, Edgar put me straight on this one.
Cheers
Steve
>From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
>Reply-To: exim-users@???
>To: Steve Karlsen <steve_karlsen@???>
>CC: fv+exim@???, exim-users@???
>Subject: Re: [Exim] Unqualified hostnames in To and From fields
>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:23:04 +0000 (GMT)
>
>On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Steve Karlsen wrote:
>
> > Thanks for yr reply,
> >
> > It seems to be the case that exim insists on add ing qualification to
> > unqualified addresses, however, here's a teaser, I know that an exim mta
> > (version 3.36) does do this, somebody has managed to configure it to
>pass
> > out (we're all on a big private network) unqualified addresses. Now I'm
> > using Exim 4.30, so I'm wondering if 3.36 wasn't so stringent.
> > I know that their MTA does this, because I have the traces and I can see
> > Exim 3.36 in the banner.
>
>The following comment appears in the source of Exim 4.30 (current) and
>Exim 3.36 (the last Exim 3 release):
>
> /* The headers must always be run through rewrite_header, because it
> ensures that addresses are fully qualified, as well as applying any
> rewriting rules that may exist ... This rewriting is documented as
> happening *after* recipient addresses are taken from the headers by
> the -t command line option. An added Sender: gets rewritten here. */
>
>Conclusion: they hacked the code of 3.36.
>
>Alternative: they configured Exim to qualify with some magic domain, and
>added a transport filter that strips it out again.
>
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