Bug#270129: exim4-config: Bounces generated from rewritten email addresses should go to original mailbox.

Marc Haber Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>, 270129@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:13:23 +0200


On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:05:21AM -0700, Keith Dunwoody wrote:
> I am using /etc/email-addresses to make mail sent from my user keith 
> have a from address of kstephen@interchange.ubc.ca.  However, if a 
> bounce is generated trying to send an email, the bounce message is sent 
> to kstephen@interchange.ubc.ca, rather than going directly to my local
> mail file.  This creates a problem because sometimes I cannot send email 
> to my own email address, causing the bounces to get stuck.  I think 
> instead exim should send the bounce to my local mail file directly.

So you're basically proposing to do kind of "reverse rewriting" for
incoming mail to addresses listed in /etc/email-addresses?

Greetings
Marc

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