Re: [exim] SMTP-time rewriting

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Author: Dave Evans
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] SMTP-time rewriting
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 05:22:49PM +0300, Nikita Koshikov wrote:
> I have setup Exim with Dovecot as imap server. Dovecot has such feature as "master users" - such users can login as "other-user" account, so if you want login as user 'test@???' you enter 'test@???(separator)master_user'. Separator is configurable.
> When you logged in as master user, MUA (in my setup webmail) set headers from, sender, etc in format user@domain*master_user. This prevent exim from sending mail originating by master_users.
> More often became situation - when I got ticket in helpdesk - "Please send mail as sender X, because he is in vacation to client Y", "Or forward e-mail from mailbox X to Y, owner of X is not available now" etc.
> I want exim to solve this issues, and master_user can handle such requests.
> With S flag added to rewrite I'm able to send e-mail, but headers still contain identity of master_user - this should be fixed.


Ewwwww. Nasty :-)

But anyway: can you change the separator to "." ?

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