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

[Bernd Schoebel]

Hello Marc,


On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:35:21PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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?
> 
I expect it to rewrite my local email-address lix at Hugo to my gmx-address
my.email at gmx.de. But it only rewrites it to lix at gmx.de. But this is not
my gmx-address.


> > 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.
> 
I think so too. But actually it doesn't on my system.


> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > # 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?
> 
I wrote a message with mutt to my other email
bernd.schoebel at phil.stud.uni-erlangen.de. But it was rejected because
exim tried to send it as lix at gmx.de which is not the correct address. It
should have used my.email at gmx.de. The gmx SMTP-Server claimed that it
was a differnet loggedin user.

I hope, I made the problem clear now.

Greetings
   Bernd