RE: [Sheflug] Email addressess (was Emacs - formatting and dating files)

["Lewis Ashton" <nospam [at] supanet.com>]

Hi folks,

This reply is a general one to the thread, and not specifically to the mail
below from Alex.

It seems that there have been a lot of solutions given for translating local
email addresses to public ones. IMHO the logical difference between an MUA
and an MTA is that the MUA allows you to read and compose mail and the MTA
is concerned with the delivery. So I would always do any address
manipulation with the MTA.

Personally my preference is for Exim as an MTA and the address rewriting in
that is so straight forward even I managed it first time I tried. Sendmail
and qmail I don't know about. But I'm assured that masquerading in sendmail
is fairly straight forward. qmail, pass.

Personally I'd not want to use the "reply-to" field from an MUA to achieve
the desired result because that means making public your internal addressing
structure and I'm a paranoid sort of bloke. The other down side is that you
need different configurations if you want to send mail around a private
network.

Alex: I don't believe that there is any relationship between the need to be
an exim trussed user and address rewriting in the MTA. In fact I'm sure of
it. I used to rewrite about 200,000 users headers with only me being trusted
on the system.

2p
Lewis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
> Behalf Of Alex Hudson
> Sent: 24 January 2001 20:20
> To: Sheflug
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Email addressess (was Emacs - formatting and
> dating files)
>
>
> On 24 Jan 2001 14:12:46 +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> >  Sorry, I use QMail, although I assume that there is an analogue to the
> > Sendmail functionality. Changing to Sendmail is not an option (and not
> > something I'd like to do anyway :-)
> >  Surely this hack would present me as baz [at] ecosse.net and not
> > TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net?
>
>
> This absolutely isn't going to help *you* at all, but I have exim setup
> by Debian automagically, (eximconfig), and it quite happily rewrites my
> email address (or, at least, it appears to from here!). You generally
> need to setup your mail system to have you as a 'trusted user' -
> obviously, mailers don't let *any* user rewrite their headers... maybe
> you need to have a look at that? You might be able to mess with some
> rewrite rules to do the job for you.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Alex.

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