Re: [exim] $sender_address rewritten by SMTPAuth

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Josh Berry
CC: Exim Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [exim] $sender_address rewritten by SMTPAuth
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Josh Berry wrote:
>
> The problem is that the "to" field in the transport is returning the
> message to $sender_address ... which should be the person who has sent
> the mail. Unfortunately, the $sender_address value is being overwritten
> by the username used for SMTP Auth (which is forced for all clients) and
> may be different from the users mail address.


Submission mode assumes that usernames are valid local parts, because it
is designed to work like local submission on a Unix box. If this isn't the
case for you, you probably want the /sender_retain option. You also need
verify=sender.

Tony.
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