> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ruben de Groot > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:47 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Ian Moore; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Sendmail masquerading configuration > > > > > > X-Authentication-Warning: myhost.foo.bar: root set sender to > > someuser using -f > > Sorry, but this simply isn't true. I have just tested this. Warnings > like this might get generated when you remove root from the > TRUSTED_USERS macro; *NOT* when you remove it from EXPOSED_USERS. >
Your right, me bad! > > It also makes it harder to troubleshoot when someone external to > > your system is sending bogus junk to you. > > I agree. As I said in the part of my message you snipped: > > "BTW, I agree that masquerading is NOT the proper way to do > these things." > > > And while it's not applicable now, with older versions of sendmail > > this would definitely break all your scripts that used e-mail. > > > > Use of the -f flag is what he needs to do. > > Fine. But the OP's problem concerned mail send by cron. How would you > instruct cron to use the -f flag? (There's a MAILTO environment > variable in cron, but no MAILFROM) > I would probably install src/usr.sbin/ and recompile cron to use the -f flag. The flags are settible in cron/config.h in the source, FreeBSD uses #define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t" /*-*/ just change this to #define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -odi -oem -oi -t" /*-*/ Ted _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
