Re: Home Mail Server

From: Peter A. Cole (peteracole_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 02/22/04

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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:11:16 +1000

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "David" <dbree@duo-county.com>
    To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
    Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:06 PM
    Subject: Re: Home Mail Server

    > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:51:41AM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote:
    > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > From: "Paul Johnson" <baloo@ursine.ca>
    > > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
    > > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:22 AM
    > > Subject: Re: Home Mail Server
    >
    >
    > I've not followed this thread too closely.
    >
    > Are you using exim4? I'm not sure if this works with exim3 or not.

    Hi David, no sorry, I'm now using sendmail. I was initially using exim, but
    moved to sendmail because of mimedefang's dependency on it. I wasn't aware
    of exiscan-acl at the time.

    > Are you letting exim rewrite the username? If not, you should probably
    > do that. Then have the mail client send the email with the From: header
    > with the local username.

    This is where I had problems with exim, but now I have sendmail running like
    a charm, rewriting external addresses and leaving internal ones alone.

    > At first I had my rewrite rule in the Rewrite section of the
    > exim{,4}.conf file. It was doing what I think yours is doing, rewriting
    > the From: for ALL mails.
    >
    > I then commented this line out and added two lines under "remote_smtp":
    >
    > headers_rewrite = dlb@localhost.localdomain dbree@duo-county.com f
    > return_path = dbree@duo-county.com
    >
    > I'm not sure if the "return_path" is necessary or not, but it doesn't
    > seem to hurt at least, and _could_ be needed anyway.
    >
    > Note that I'm the only user, but you should be able to use a lookup rule
    > in the rules for multiuser systems.
    >
    > Now, the rewrite happens only if you send mail out to the net.
    >
    > One further note. This is for smart_host usage, and not for direct mail
    > hosting. But I'm sure that a similar rule could be implemented for
    > this, too.
    >
    I'm using the smart host configuration and fetchmail to get the messages
    from my ISP.

    Thanks for your reply anyway David, I'll archive it for future reference if
    I end up using exim with exiscan-acl or anything like that.

    Pete 

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