On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 08:45:45PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> > And then they occasionally wish to send E-mail to the
> > outside world.
>
> Sure. And sometimes, they might write a message and address it to two
> people, one of whom is another user on the Linux box, and the other is
> somebody out there in the world. Have you never sent a message to more
> than one recipient? If you send a message containing
>
> To: local-person@mybox, foreign-person@???
>
> you have such a message. What you are asking for is that the copy sent
> to local-person contains one From: header, and the copy sent to
> foreign-person contains a different From: header. And the same for the
> envelope sender fields. Does that make more sense now?
It is exactly what I want. And in theory there is no reason
why I can't have it, is there? For, in my _old_ exim.conf
configuration(I chose option 2 in eximconfig), all my local
mail was delivered immediately, and what was left over was
deposited in /var/spool/exim/input. Why can not that mail,
before it is put there(to await my dialing up), have its
From: etc lines rewritten, to make it acceptable to
my ISP?
Of course, I don't know how to do that. I grep for various
terms in /usr/share/doc/exim/manual.html, and occasionally
find them, but never in a relevant context. I hear a lot
about acls. I don't know what they are, except vaguely, in
a context of better protections for certain kinds of file
systems. A lot of people here know about such things in the
context of exim. I grep -i acl in the above ../manual.html
directory, and I get a reference to Oracle. Sheesh!
> I tried to guide you in my last response. It can be done, but you have
> to arrange for it to be done only for the copy that is going "outside".
What I have done in the meantime: I have run eximconfig but
this time entered the option 3. This time I do indeed get a
nice REWRITE CONFIGURATION section, with some material there
that does seem to be useful.
For I now no longer need to call my machine 'patriot.net', which
it is certainly _not_. I can call it 'alanmcc', which it _is_.
And my mail headers are rewritten and I can send stuff out via
the mail server 'jefferson.patriot.net'. All very good.
A slight problem remains. Any local mail on my machine e.g.
from 'root' to 'alan' gets dumped into /var/spool/exim/input.
And there it sits. Until I dial up, and then it goes whistling
up to patriot.net. And there it sits until I run my fetchmail,
and then, finally, it is delivered to me.
I can, I suppose, live with above slight problem. But doesn't
it seem silly? What do I need to do to get local mail, mail
within my machine, delivered locally?
I shan't attach my new exim.conf, since I hope the answer can be said
in one line. It does seem that it has all the transport stanzas that
my other exim.confs had. It has of course a simple router section . .
I am sorry to bother the Assembled Wisdom with a eximnewbie's iterated
queries. My only justification: my query is reasonable and an answer
should be useful in lots of situations.
Best wishes, and Happy New Year, to all!
Alan
--
Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan
"We are easy to manage; a gregarious people, full of sentiment,
clever at mechanics, and we love our luxuries."(Robinson Jeffers)
