[Savannah-hackers] Using real e-mail addresses in log_accum

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
I thought I had already fixed the problem of log_accum not being able to send
mail to fencepost, but what had happened was that an account was open for me
in fencepost and I stopped getting bounced messages from log_accum. Other uses
kept getting bounced messages.

In order to finally solve the problem, I have uncommented the following rule
at the end of subversions:/etc/exim/exim.conf

# This is an example of a useful rewriting rule---it looks up the real
# address of all local users in a file

address@hidden    ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
                                                {$value}fail} bcfrF

# End of Exim configuration file

If we place the real email addresses of Savannah users in the file
/etc/email-addresses, they will be used by exim to identify the sender of the
message in log_accum.

We currently have the real addresses in /etc/aliases and there must be some
sf_ script that updates it any time a new user registers. We can either use
"email-addresses" instead of aliases for the real email addresses (this would
imply updating the scripts that update/read "aliases") or to keep the scripts
pointing to "aliases" and simply modify the last part of exim.conf.
Any preferences?

Jaime