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Date:      Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:29:21 -0500
From:      Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To:        Darryl Hoar <darryl@osborne-ind.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Qmail - envelope rewrite
Message-ID:  <20010921132921.D96445@comp04.prc.uic.edu>
In-Reply-To: <001501c141f4$dc7fc030$0701a8c0@darryl>; from darryl@osborne-ind.com on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:54:05AM -0500
References:  <001501c141f4$dc7fc030$0701a8c0@darryl>

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> The problem is, that when email is composed and sent from the
> outlook client, and the address is not on the Qmail server, the
> qmail box forwards it on.  But... the qmail box in on our private
> lan.  It has a private IP (192.168.1.X), and we are running our own
> DNS server for our private IP's.
> 
> So, based on the rejected emails, It looks like I have to rewrite
> the email envelope to be from the user, in order to get it to work.
> Any pointers on how to do this?

Rewriting the header is possible, but it's usually not necessary,
since the MUA should put something intelligent in the 'From' and
'Reply-to' fields.  What, exactly, do you think is wrong with the
header on outgoing messages?  Example?

Lucas

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