[Pkg-exim4-users] exim seems to ignore /etc/email-addresses

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:34:50PM +0200, Bernd Schoebel wrote:
> it seems to me as exim is ignorring my '/etc/email-addresses'.

What do you expect it to do?

> Do I have to configure exim to use it? I think it is enabled by default.
> exim rewrite the part of the email after the @ but not the part before.

Actually, it is supposed to rewrite the entire address.

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> # This is /etc/email-addresses. It is part of the exim package
> #
> # This file contains email addresses to use for outgoing mail. Any local
> # part not in here will be qualified by the system domain as normal.
> #
> # It should contain lines of the form:
> #
> #user: someone at isp.com
> #otheruser: someoneelse at anotherisp.com
> 
> lix: my.email at gmx.de


Looks fine.

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2007-04-29 14:18:02 1Hi8Lq-000527-HB <= lix at Hugo U=lix P=local S=745 id=20070429121802.GA19341 at Hugo
> 2007-04-29 14:18:03 1Hi8Lq-000527-HB ** bernd.schoebel at phil.stud.uni-erlangen.de <Bernd.Schoebel at phil.stud.uni-erlangen.de> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<lix at gmx.net> SIZE=1785 AUTH=lix at Hugo: host mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.21]: 550 5.7.0 Sender address does not belong to logged in user {mp049}
> 2007-04-29 14:18:03 1Hi8Lr-00052A-OY <= <> R=1Hi8Lq-000527-HB U=Debian-exim P=local S=1730
> 2007-04-29 14:18:03 1Hi8Lq-000527-HB Completed
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

What exactly did you do to generate the message that was rejected by
GMX?

Greetings
Marc

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