Re: [exim] Exim always uses "intern" E-Mail address as "FROM…

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Author: Renaud Allard
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To: veryxRV
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim always uses "intern" E-Mail address as "FROM" entry


veryxRV wrote:
>
> Magnus Holmgren-3 wrote:
>> On Monday 26 February 2007 15:42, veryxRV wrote:
>>> Exim always uses the internal email addess (www-data@machine) for
>>> delivery
>>> to an external SMTP server. How can i change this? It has to use a
>>> special
>>> e-mail adress!
>> If the web application (I presume) in question can't use SMTP to talk to
>> Exim,
>> the easiest solution probably is to add www-data to trusted_users.
>>
>> --
>>
>
> I solved the problem now, but theres another one:
>
> The email is being rejected by the smtp server. The server response gave me
> a link:
>
> http://freemail.web.de/reject2/
>
> There are listed some reasons for this rejection on the the site. I think
> this is fitting to my problem:
>
> "WEB.DE does not accept any E-Mail on its incoming mail servers originating
> from IP numbers without a resolvable DNS entry. Update your DNS zone files
> and afterwards contact us to re-evaluate your IP number(s)."
>
> So any idea what to do now?


Just ask your ISP to set up a reverse DNS for the IP of your server. For
a more accurate setting, your HELO, A record and PTR record should match.