Re: [TCLUG:21347] sendmail question

[jack@jacku.com]

From the "Bat" book - Chapter 19 section 19.6.42 & 43 (page 280-281)

MASQUERADE_AS(server) 
Or
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN('other.domain')(Says this is the same as CM.)

Search you available documentation for these. They might do what you want.

Jack.
On Fri, 15 September 2000, Jon Schewe wrote:

> 
> Here's the deal, I've got a firewall with a real IP and domain name,
> eggplant.mtu.net, forwarding all SMTP traffic to an internal mailserver,
> non-routable IP, disk.mn.mtu.net.  If I send messages through my internal
> mailserver the messages look like they're from disk.mn.mtu.net and I want them
> to look like they're from eggplant.mtu.net because outside mailservers can't
> do a lookup on disk.mn.mtu.net, non-routable IP.  I've tried setting
> DMeggplant.mtu.net in the sendmail.cf file and that just modifies the message,
> not the envelope.  If I tell disk.mn.mtu.net that it's hostname is
> eggplant.mtu.net, everything seems to work ok, but I'm thinking that a network
> with two machines believing they're the same name is not a good idea.  I don't
> really want to regenerate my sendmail.cf from m4 because I'm not sure I can.
> Don't know which one I started with 5 years ago, although it might not matter.
> 
> Any ideas?  Yes I checked out http://www.sendmail.org and the sendmail docs
> and they all talk about regenerating the sendmail.cf through m4.  No I'm not
> going to use qmail right now unless someone can point me at explicit
> directions, I tend to need them sometimes, at how to set it up so that it
> works like a mostly default sendmail config, with the above fix.
> 
> -- 
> Jon Schewe | http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
> For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels 
> nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any 
> powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all 
> creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that 
> is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39
> 
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