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

I did not even know there was an /etc/email-addresses
I so owe you one.
thank you thank you thank you !!!
gayle

At 03:14 AM 12/30/2008, Renaud Allard wrote:
>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 :)
>