On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:07:19PM -0700, Darrin Lajoie wrote:
>
>OK, let me phrase it a different way. I set my local mail server up with a
>name mail.notrealdomain.net. I would now like to change it's name to
>mail.realdomain.com. How would I do that on a Debian system without having
>to start from scratch?
If notrealdomain.net is not known outside your private network, it might be
best to :
1. tell your sendmail to route all outgoing mail thru your ISP's "smart host";
2. tell your sendmail to "masquerade as" that smart host.
This way, all your outgoing mail will go via the ISP's mailserver, and will
avoid these relaying-related problems.
An alternative, if you can sell your ISP on it, is to route your mail via
UUCP. Having root at your ISP may help :-) I'm trying to get it going like
this at efn in my Copious Free Time (efn, BTW, supports UUCP by policy, but
i've never seen anyone ask for it; this strikes me as odd, since it is
engineered to avoid all these IP-related problems...).
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