Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Guy Van Sanden <sienix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello

I'm trying to make a mail-setup for my home network.  I was thinking 
about using postfix, because many claim it's better, and, more 
important, more secure than sendmail (I don't know if it's true).

But I have some difficulties setting both of them up, posfix is 
completely dead in the water (was like that out of the box), sendmail 
can deliver local mail.

What I want to do is the following:

Clients in the network (Win9x and Linux)  <--> 	firewall with sendmail or 
postfix running <--> internet
static IP								eth0, DHCP address from ISP - eth1, static IP

I have one mailbox with my provider, it's something like 
guy123@xxxxxxx, they have a POP3 and SMTP server:
mail-in@xxxxxxx and mail-out@xxxxxxx
The SMTP server of my ISP filters relaying, and access to other 
external SMTP's is blocked.  Ditto for external connections to all my 
ports below 1023.

What I want to do is the following, we have a number of mail address 
we use at home (like extra flashmail addresses, etc.)
I want to set all clients up to send mail via my SMTP server, which 
sends it further to my ISP, but preserving the original FROM and 
REPLY-TO fields of the message.
And for a number of addresses, I want to receive them on my server and 
have them delivered to local spools.
 
I got the sending part working once with these parameters (in 
sendmail)
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSsmtp:mail-out.pandora.be

# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
DMpandora.be

It works, but if I send a mail: FROM guy.van.sanden@xxxxxxx, it 
arrives as FROM: gvs@xxxxxxx (gvs is my local userid.), and you can't 
reply to that because the address belongs to someone else.
I would also like to send mail like FROM: me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or 
something...

At this moment, all my clients are configured to use mail-out@xxxxxxx 
to send mail, but the from header can be whatever I fill in.

Can this be done?

Thanks for any help!

Guy