Re: [exim] making FROM: field a specific user

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Autor: Renaud Allard
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A: windy_1
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] making FROM: field a specific user
Hello,

windy_1 wrote:
> I need help making exim4 set the FROM: field to a specific user
>
> I really have RTFM ... I obviously don't understand what I read. I am trying
> to get exim4 to send all mail from bugzilla at virtualinstruments.com (with
> the at the thing over the 2 which I didn't use so this email program would
> not code it as an email address)
> Instead it sends it from www-data at virtualinstruments.com
> if I do an ls -l in the bugzilla directory the owner shows as www-data
> that is what bugzilla did when it installed itself from binary because I
> spent four days and could not get the source to install.
> [note: we will not go into the three weeks I beat my head into a wall to get
> decode::detect to install so I could import the old bugzilla data base (one
> must install g++ but no one or nothing tells one that - I finally googled
> each and every error line and finally found one had something to do with c++]
> okay so now all I want to do is communicate with exim4 that no matter what or
> whom passes it email to send, it is to put bugzilla at virtaulinstruments.com
> in the from: in the headers.
> I have tried everything in the docs that appeared to relate as in
> untrusted_set_sender = *
> ???
> do I sent that to
> untrusted_set_sender = bugzilla at at virtualinstruments.com
> or


As it seems you are running Debian or Ubuntu. Have a look at
/etc/email-addresses and put
www-data: bugzilla@???

This assume that you are running a single web app using mail on this server.


> I'm getting to think windows might have a good side and that is scary


Scary, indeed :)