Solved Forwarders not longer originating from internal email address

[simplificare]

I’ve noticed that emails being sent to email forwarders now appear to be forwarded with a from address representing the originating email address instead of the forwarding email.

IE. If I setup a forwarder [email protected] to forward to [email protected]. If I send from [email protected] to [email protected], my third party email service shows the email as originating from nameless@gmail.com and to fwd@gmail.com, instead of from [email protected] to [email protected].

While this makes sense on the surface, I feel like there was a configuration change somehere in the past release as now my outbound smtp service thinks I’m trying to relay mail for gmail instead of Simplificare.net, and this was never previously an issue.

They authenticate mail from domains that I add to a whitelist, which is verified by DKIM and SPF records. I obviously cannot do that for gmail.com.

Is there any way to change this back to making the forwarded mail appear to come from simplificare.net?

Thanks!

 

[mxroute]

Check and see if this updated documentation helps: https://docs.directadmin.com/other-hosting-services/exim/smarthost.html

That was updated specifically to address a change in the latest exim update that caused previous include configs to not use SRS as intended.

 

[simplificare]

This works! Thank you for your quick input!

 

[CrazyFrog]

After an Exim update, I've had the exact same problem with 2 machines that use a smarthost, and I can confirm that using the /etc/exim.routers.pre.conf from the documentation above solved the problem!