How to set envelope sender (MAIL FROM) using exim

Tom Ellis tom-lists-clug at jaguarpaw.co.uk
Fri Sep 26 18:48:34 CEST 2008


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:35:58PM +0100, Marcus Williams wrote:
> On 26.9.2008, Tom Ellis Huckstep wrote:
> > The ideal solution would perhaps to be to use an MTA that was designed for
> > small scale use, always relaying to a smarthost.  Exim was designed to run
> > the Cambridge University mail system, after all!  I don't know if any good
> > programs fitting that description exist though.  Anyone?
> 
> esmtp works pretty well for me - simple config file to specify where
> to poke stuff on a smarthost. I've used it in places where I've had
> autogenerated emails (from cron jobs etc) that need sending but no
> local mail is required.

Cheers Marcus.  The problem is, when I said "all mail" I meant "all mail
that isn't to be delivered locally".  But maybe esmtp can deal with that. 
I'll check it out.



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