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Many thanks for the very quick reply! It works fine now.
Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: Lee Mason <leemason@???>
To:<exim-users@???>
Cc:
Date: Sunday, December 16 2007 10:00 AM
Subject: Changing Return-path with specific sender domain causes remote mail servers to reject message
We are running Exim 4.50.
We need to be able to send e-mails with various different return addresses for example:
The Xyz Company <support@???>
or
Support Systems Ltd <info@???>
I have changed the return-path in the header of all outgoing e-mails by using:
return_path = $ reply_address
This
seemed to work fine. However some remote mail servers (by no means all)
and rejecting the the e-mails sent to the with a 501 error.
It appears that Exim could be constructing the return_path as follows:
<The Xyz Company <support@???>>
Adding
an extra set of < > around the complete address. This can be see
in the log file as P=<The Xyz Company <support@???>>.
I have a couple of questions about this:
1.
Is this expected behaviour and is the syntax of the return_path created
therefore legal (i.e. are the remote SMTP servers rejecting this
unnecessarily)?
2. How can this be changed to strip the excess <
> before sending? Can this be done with a rewrite rule or by some
other method?
Thanks in advance,
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