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Author: Pete Schaefers
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To: Exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] How to rewrite From: header of offsite forwards only to prevent Amazon SES 554 error
On 2018-03-25 09:53, Pete Schaefers wrote:
> On 2018-03-24 13:22, Jeremy Harris wrote:
> > On 24/03/18 07:08, Pete Schaefers via Exim-users wrote:
> > > senders = *@+local_domains
> >
> > That almost certainly will not work if the "local_domains"
> > list has more than one element, and I'm surprised it works
> > at all. You're abusing list-syntax there.
> >
> > Instead, use a generic "condition=" router condition with
> > a value constructed using ${if } involving $sender_address_domain
> > and match_domain.
> > --
> > Jeremy
>
> I appreciate your help. Clearly I'm just hacking at it, but I'm trying
> to learn as I do.
>
> I checked and "local_domains" comes from "domainlist local_domains =
> lsearch;/etc/localdomains" and /etc/localdomains indeed has a list all
> domains in it. Oddly it still works as intended in my tests. On further
> looking I'm guessing "*@+local_domains" would be used in a rewrite.
>
> Based on you comments I'm thinking this what you meant:
>
> condition = ${if match_domain {$sender_address_domain}{+local_domains}}
>
> It also seems to work on initial tests, but I'm learning that just
> because EXIM accepts the config file and even seems to do what I want
> doesn't make it right.
>
> -Pete
>
>


Is my syntax correct? Should that condition statement do as I expect
(insure that messages handled by this router are from a sender on a
local domain, and not a forward from an external sender)?

Thanks in advance for any input, positive or negative.

-Pete

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