[Pkg-exim4-users] Setting HELO string with macro REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2021-08-13 Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, dem 11.08.2021 um 18:16 +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
[...]
> > does the setting end up in the configuration at all?
> > exim4 -bP macros | grep REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA
> > Are you using a locally set up different transport (You could see
> > the name of the transport in the logfile.)

> Yes, I have a custom transport for the mailing list manager Sympa.

> ```
[...]
> $ more /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/20_local-config_sympa
> ### Sympa transport
> sympa_transport:
>   debug_print = "T: sympa_transport for $local_part$local_part_suffix@$domain"
>   driver = pipe
>   command = SYMPA_QUEUE $local_part$local_part_suffix@$domain
>   current_directory = SYMPA_HOME
>   home_directory = SYMPA_HOME
>   user = SYMPA_UID
>   group = SYMPA_GID

> sympaowner_transport:
>   debug_print = "T: sympaowner_transport for $local_part@$domain"
>   driver = pipe
>   command = SYMPA_BOUNCEQUEUE $local_part@$domain
>   current_directory = SYMPA_HOME
>   home_directory = SYMPA_HOME
>   user = SYMPA_UID
>   group = SYMPA_GID

> sympabounce_transport:
>   driver = pipe
>   command = SYMPA_BOUNCEQUEUE sympa@$domain
>   current_directory = SYMPA_HOME
>   home_directory = SYMPA_HOME
>   user = SYMPA_UID
>   group = SYMPA_GID

Hello Paul,

Afaik none of these transports do actual SMTP deliveries, the mails
piped into a sympa command which probably will generate a mail and pass
it back to exim for delivery. So they should not be relevant.

cu Andreas
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