Problems with From line and virtual hosting (help?0

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Problems with From line and virtual hosting (help?0

Postby Christopher Molnar » Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:10:46 GMT

I have read the manual pages and the virtual hosting pages.

Here is the problem:

on my server I host various domains and some email only domains. All the 
users have local logins so they can use imap, etc...

Let's say that I send a message with a From line of:

 XXXX@XXXXX.COM 

to:

 XXXX@XXXXX.COM 

the From line is getting re-written to:

 XXXX@XXXXX.COM 

(where server.com is the domain name of the mail server).

In genericstable I have written:

paul	 XXXX@XXXXX.COM 


In generics-domains I have:

virtualdomain1.com


in virtusertable I have

 XXXX@XXXXX.COM 	chris
 XXXX@XXXXX.COM 		paul


I need to be able to maintain the from lines and not have them re-
written. The correct from line " XXXX@XXXXX.COM " is actually 
showing up in the maillog but somehow is vanishing as the mail is 
processed.

Can anyone shed any light on the problem?

Thanks,
-Chris

Re: Problems with From line and virtual hosting (help?0

Postby per » Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:33:36 GMT

In article < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > Christopher
Molnar < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:

Most likely cause is that you are either masquerading as server.com, or
that you have a line in /etc/hosts like:

ip.add.re.ss server.com virtualdomain1.com


That's not generally useful, generics-domains should list the domains to
rewrite, not the result (of course). You could perhaps have server.com
there, and it may even "fix" your problem above, but it would be better
to avoid the need for a fix.

--Per Hedeland
 XXXX@XXXXX.COM 


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