On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Raoul Boenisch wrote:
> In pine you can use 'customized-hdrs' to add header entries. Then you
> should add 'Reply-To:' in your header. This would be the best solution in
> so far that you don't cheat by changing the originator address.
Already do.
> For PPP-machines this would suck big time though. Many hosts on the net
> have the policy to check the sender address especially mailinglist
> servers. The check will fail as your local address doesn't have a DNS
> entry. The transfer would then be denied.
I've noticed.
> So if you use PPP with dynamic address you should really rewrite the From
> line. The disadvantage is that locally sent mail will first be sent to
> your ISP and then return on the next mail fetch. I don't have a solution
> for this yet.
Perhaps set a sendmail alias for the username? I'm not really familiar
with sendmail, but I had a look in the O'Reilly bat book about a month
ago, and from what I can recall, the /etc/aliases file is for this sort of
thing.
> To rewrite the From line I suggest using sendmail's genericstable feature
> which is perfectly right for this purpose. In your sendmail m4 config file
> add the following lines:
>
> FEATURE(always_add_domain)
> FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)
> GENERICS_DOMAIN(wondernet.local)
> GENERICS_DOMAIN(spiral.wondernet.local)
> FEATURE(genericstable, hash /etc/genericstable)
>
> where wondernet should be changed to your local network name. I had to add
Ah. This is what I wanted to know. If this mail gets through and has a
rewritten From line, then it worked.
> the spiral.wondernet.local entry as masquerade_entire_domain seems to have
> no effect though it is said in the documents that it would have. Does
> anybody know about this problem or what I do wrong?
>
> Don't forget to compile your m4 config file and restart sendmail as long
> as you don't run it from /etc/inetd.conf
Thanks.
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