Tony Nugent wrote:
>
> On Thu Oct 29 1998 15:47, Adoram Rogel wrote:
>
> > How do I setup sendmail so that when user "nobody" sends mail
> > it will come from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and not
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > For incoming mail I have an alias for a-very-long-name and it works
> > fine.
> > I don't want to create a user called a-very-long-name.
> >
> > Thanks in advance, Adoram Rogel
>
> By the sounds of it you'll need to do reverse name mapping for outgoing
> mail.
>
> Not such a trivial thing to do... you'll have to enable this by recompiling
> a new sendmail.cf file, then set up the reverse mapping file.
>
> I've had to do this myself... my username on my workstation is not the
> same as my email address, so I've had to get sendmail to "translate" my
> username to map to my corrent email address.
>
> (BTW, it was absolutely trivial to alias the host address - a simple
> one-line edit of sendmail.cf does this trick. But getting the username
> working is another matter altogether).
>
> Check out http://www.sendmail.org/ and look for anything that refers to
> "generics" (I think:)
>
> Hope this helps to point you in the right direction.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
Thanks for the pointer. It does appear in the FAQ there (Q3.2).
Thanks again, Adoram
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