I feel u can have a look at inn and majordomo also !!!
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Melton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Sendmail and AIX I use the AIX mhmail command as follows: mhmail $ADDRESS -from $FROM -subject $SUBJECT -cc $CC </tmp/from_off Of course I supply the variables $ADDRESS, $FROM, $SUBJECT and $CC but the email looks like it came from whomever I specify. The mail headers do indeed show the true account on the AIX machine that generated it, so it depends on the receipient email system as to what is looked at and verified. Tom Melton Emory HealthCare >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/14/02 06:04AM >>> > I know this is not a TSM topic but what the hey. > We currently use AIX sendmail to mail copies of our vault list generated > from TSM to our off-site tape handler. > With the recent rash of viruses being sent by email, this company will not > accept email from a sender they can not do a "reverse DNS lookup" on. > And they can't do a 'reverse DNS lookup" on the mail they are getting from > my TSM server. > Our mail guys,( who are like me and don't know much about sendmail) tell me > that there should be a way of supplying a from address that is more public > in the mail we are automatically sending from my TSM AIX server. > For the life of me I can't find this in any of the manuals I've searched. > anyone have any ideas? > Hmmm, it is possible in sendmail (recent sendmail versions, and you don't want to use older versions ;) to define a canonical map. This translates the 'from' header and the 'mail from:' smtp command to whatever you say. It's more likely a dns problem, not sendmail. Have your dns guys add a reverse entry for the ip address of you tsm server to it's hostname as it is know in the dns (canonical name) so if your server is known as buackup.example.com in the dns with ip of 172.31.0.123 that make sure you also have a reverse entry. eg. backup.example.com. IN A 172.31.0.123 and: 172.31.0.123 IN PTR backup.example.com. This usually solves your kind of problems. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams
