RE: [Sheflug] Email addressess

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

Hi folks,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
> Behalf Of Alex Hudson
> Sent: 26 January 2001 19:40
> To: Sheflug
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Email addressess
>
>
> On 26 Jan 2001 09:47:59 +0000, Lewis Ashton wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> Bravo! (Choice of exim, that is :)
Its the only one I've ever had the need to use. I inhereted a medium sized
exim set up when I joined a free ISP a couple of years ago. By the time I
left there it was a massive setup delivering 1 million mails a week. I never
had any major problems with it. In fact the only problem we ever had with
the mail were caused by LDAP or the Love Bug Virus.

Since then, every time I've been asked to validate a sendmail config I've
been able to justify changing to exim. In the last place a couple of my
colleagues also swapped their home systems over.

> > 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.
>
>
> I'm not sure the fact that you, being a trusted user, were able to
> rewrite critical email fields is somehow proof that you don't need to be
> a trusted user to rewrite critical email fields in exim :) Trusted user
> refers to the owner of the exim process, not the sender of the email.
>
> From the exim.conf on my machine:
>
> --- begin
> # If this option is set, then any process that is running as one of the
> # listed users may pass a message to Exim and specify the sender's
> # address using the "-f" command line option, without Exim's adding a
> # "Sender" header.
>
> trusted_users = mail:alexhu
> --- end
>
> I interpret this to mean, "only trusted users may spoof their email
> address" (which is essentially what you're trying to do anyway ;). I'm
> willing to be corrected on this matter: I'm not email expert by any
> means, exim being the one MTA I can actually abide using (sendmail gets
> on my ..wotsits ;). But, the above configuration works for me.

Fair enough. I've not got a system up and running at the moment to tinker
about with it. I'll have to offer no further comment for now.

Lewis

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