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EXIM: How can I route emails originating from a PHP script through an IP, and emails from SMTP/IMAP through another IP?

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Is it possible to make exim route all email originating from php scripts (/usr/sbin/sendmail) through RouteA, and route all email originating from smtp/imap connections through RouteB?

I'm running exim on a cpanel server, and every email originated from PHP scripts have a header called "X-PHP-Script". Is it possible to make exim filter emails that have this header and deliver these emails using a particular IP on my server?

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Vinicius Munich

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Thanks for the suggestion @noci. Unfortunately that wouldn't work for me. I run a small shared hosting, and often users will use outdated or vulnerable scripts, so they get abused. Attackers might upload or run scripts that sends a lot of spam.

Since these spamming PHP scripts use /usr/sbin/sendmail to send email, I can't force them to use a custom port. I'm trying to route email sent using /usr/sbin/sendmail through one route and SMTP email through another route so that if RouteA gets blacklisted because of spammers, it won't affect the emails sent from SMTP, because it uses RouteB.

It doesn't have to be routes necessarily. If I could send email from php scripts through one IP, and SMTP email through another IP, that would work too.

Would you have another suggestion?

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Sufficient info in both answers