At 10:17 AM 05/26/00 +0100, Rik Dunphy wrote:
When sendmail tries to send mail to the SMTP server (dialup) it sends the mail with the FROM field as me@pc.domain.com
This causes a problem with a lot of destinations. For example if I try to send a mail to myself at work it bounes. Basically the server tells me that it won't accept the email since pc.domain.com is not a valid domain.
This I can understand, since I don't have a permanent IP to use, only one that is given to me when I dialup.
No, it's not the IP issue, rather the name lookup is failing. I was running dialup for a while without a problem.
I think I need to get sendmail to fill the FROM field as me@domain.com
Then you need to setup sendmail to masquerade.
but just can't get it to do so. I am using the rc.config file to set it up, but to no avail.
Sendmail is confusing enough without having an extra layer of settings with SuSE. Maybe there's a setting in rc.config for masquerading that someone can point out, but I don't know it. What you need is this in your sendmail.cf file: # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M) DMdomain.com Where domain.com is your real domain name. Frankly, what I did was to download a current version of sendmail, and build and install from scratch. It cleared up a lot of problems I was having. Here's my .mc file. I'm not sure if it's completely correct, but it's real simple. You might want to add a smarthost setting. OSTYPE(linux)dnl define(`confCF_VERSION',`Linux 2000/05/23')dnl DOMAIN(generic)dnl FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh') FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl FEATURE(virtusertable)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`hank.org')dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(access_db)dnl Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/