Exim rewrite rules

[Geoff]

I recently 'fixed' my configuration so satellite systems in my domain could send and receive mail correctly. However as a side effect of this my reader machine (a zimbra server) is having it's mail sent out with it's FQDN (eg, user@host.domain). I don't want this to happen. I need mail to go out as user@domain.

I am using exim4 on a Ubuntu 6.06LTS machine. I am using the 'debian' split configuration system. My debconf variables are as follows:

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='carrhill.lancs.sch.uk'
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost='hydra.carrhill.lancs.sch.uk'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='10.73.24.0/22'
dc_smarthost='mail.lancsngfl.ac.uk'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'

I also haved a hubbed_hosts file with the following:

vle.carrhill.lancs.sch.uk:goliath.carrhill.lancs.sch.uk
carrhill.lancs.sch.uk:hydra.carrhill.lancs.sch.uk

Goliath is one of my satellite systems.

[mark]

Is that a question or an answer?? :P hehe!

By the way, where's a good place to go to ask exim questions?

[Iain]

Hi Geoff,

I think your issue may be caused by the dc_readhost declaration. I think this should only contain the domain name that you want in the headers of outbound mail. e.g.

dc_readhost='carrhill.lancs.sch.uk'

Inbound mail to <user>@carhill.lancs.sch.uk should still be delivered to hydra.carhill.lancs.sch.uk as defind in your hubbed_hosts file.

From the update-exim4.conf man pages:

dc_readhost
For "smarthost" and "satellite" it is possible to hide the local mailname in the headers of outgoing mail and replace it with this value instead, using rewriting.

Apologies if I have got the wrong end of the stick, but I don't use Debian based systems and this is a Debian specific configuration.

Iain.