Bug#270129: exim4-config: Bounces generated from rewritten email addresses should go to original mailbox.

keith keith <kstephen@interchange.ubc.ca>, 270129@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 5 Sep 2004 14:09:12 -0700


On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 08:13:23PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:05:21AM -0700, Keith Dunwoody wrote:
> > I am using /etc/email-addresses to make mail sent from my user keith 
> > have a from address of kstephen@interchange.ubc.ca.  However, if a 
> > bounce is generated trying to send an email, the bounce message is sent 
> > to kstephen@interchange.ubc.ca, rather than going directly to my local
> > mail file.  This creates a problem because sometimes I cannot send email 
> > to my own email address, causing the bounces to get stuck.  I think 
> > instead exim should send the bounce to my local mail file directly.
> 
> So you're basically proposing to do kind of "reverse rewriting" for
> incoming mail to addresses listed in /etc/email-addresses?
> 

Yes, at least when exim is trying to send a bounce message.  Normal 
incomming mail probably doesn't need to be rewritten