+++ USM Bish [linux-india] <05/12/01 20:17 +0530>: > > What I find is that this is not happening. If hsrai ( as > > in example above ) send mail to bish, it goes to his vsnl > > account. But when Bish send mail it goes as sender > > bish@my_pc_name_domain , inspite of having any thing in > > "From:" field.
>From != envelope_from / smtp mail from: ... > This is possible if nde.vsnl.net.in is not there in your > mailertable. The file mailertable.db needs to have this. > Your mailertable should have entries like this, and then > re-compiled to make mailertable.db: > nde.vsnl.net.in smtp:nde.vsnl.net.in > iitr.ernet.in smtp:smtp.iitr.ernet.in No! That's what DNS is for. A mailertable would be if you want to ignore MX records when sending to that host, and send to a totally different mailserver instead. For example ... suppose you are on a box with a public IP (202.54.30.2 VSNL) + a private IP (10.0.3.1) as your lan mailserver. Suppose your LAN actually sits on a satyam leased line shared across yr lan by NAT. Mails are sent through a different mailserver 10.0.3.20 on your LAN (seperate pop3 and smtp servers). Now, the LAN is connected to the 'net via a NAT box ... directly. Suppose someone sends mail to another user on the same domain, mail would typically be sent out to 10.0.3.20. That looks up MX records for yourdomain.com - and sees 202.54.30.2. So, it sends the mail via the internet to 202.54.30.2 ... from Satyam to VSNL. This means that a mail from one user to another user two cabins away might go to satyam -> uunet -> vsnl [just a random example] Instead set a mailertable domain.com esmtp:[10.0.3.1] on the outbound mailserver (smtp server). So mails are delivered within the LAN itself, without touching the 'net - ignoring MX records. > > >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 553 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain <rai.iitr.ernet.in> does not exist > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This indicates that rai.iitr.ernet.is not a valid SMTP > address. The rai (prefix) is erroneously being sent. In mutt, set envelope_from in your muttrc. In pine, set user-domain in pine config to send mail as iitr.ernet.in http://www.hserus.net/dlhowto.html applies in large parts to LAN setups as well. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
