mailer-daemon

donkeyKICK

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I have a user who wants his own name for the mailer-daemon.

What happened is he got one of those delayed messages. It says blah blah blah...
From: Mail Delivery System <[email protected]

what he wants is the server.nightowlpc.com to be changed so something else.

I found this:

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=16

But I am not sure if that is a server wide change, or just for the one user.

I only want to have this affect 1 user.
 
I don't see anything in your link referring to mailer-daemon.

I don't know of any way to have exim set up custom individual mailer-daemon return addresses. A search of the exim-users mailing list finds this, from Dr Hazel (author of exim) written back in 2004:
You probably need this Wish List item to be implemented:

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(158) 29-Jun-2000 S Configure "From" in bounces
Ben Parker

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Meanwhile, try return_path setting on transport (off the top of my head;
no time to spend on this).
The current exim wish list file, found here, says simply:
The Exim Wish List has been imported into the Exim Bugzilla, which is where all new wishes should be added. This file is no longer maintained.
The current bugzilla item shows this hasn't yet been implemented; look here for details. Note it's no longer wishlist item 158, but rather bug 149.

Or in other words, no, it can't be done unless Dr Hazel's suggestion works. I haven't tried it.

Of course it's a wishlist item. You can certainly add it to Exim yourself, and the community will thank you for it :) .

That all said, my response to the thread in the exim-users list, back in 2004, said this:
We're in the same situation.

So we've set the canonical name of our mailserver to a relatively
anonymous domain name that can't easily be traced to us. We use the
same anonymous domain name for nameservers our resellers use as well.

And the website is anonymous as well. The whois is in my own name and
address, and phone number, not the business information.
Now, however, the whois is an anonymous proxy domains registration.

Jeff
 
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