On Thursday 08 November 2001 22:55 pm, Ian wrote:
> Here's the story.
>
> I have EarlyBird running and detecting various worm attacks/attempts,
> and whenever it sends an email to notify the domain contacts, it is
> using the address:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (with the correct values filled
> in).
>
> This web server is sitting behind a firewall (with a valid FQDN) and I
> need to have the nobody address changed to a valid address.  I cannot
> seem to change this inside Early Bird, so I edited
> /etc/mail/genericstable as follows:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> but the messages continue to bounce.
>
> Have I missed something obvious here?  Sendmail is not my strong suit,
> so no laughing if I have.

I changed my sendmail.cf to show:

# my official domain name
# ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain
Dj$w.bmarsh.com

but there are probably better ways.

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Bellaire, MI         11/08/01 23:13  +
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