On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
> For delivering email, your sendmail.cf should have one of the mail
> servers of your isp as the smart host. You need to masquerade only
> one domain, which is the domain your isp has no problems resolving.
> This domain need not be the reply to address. The reply to field can
> change, and can be set using your pine.
>
> There is every chance that the situation that you people are
> discussing could be different. Did I add more confusion to the
> problem?
You've understood the situation pretty well, with a booboo. Sendmail is
not the problem here... the From: line is. Reply-To can be rewritten.
Basically, Pine causes all this anguish since it won't write From: lines
correctly. If using something like Outlook or Netscape Mail across an
internal network, using sendmail as the relay, there is no problem with
from lines either, since they are written correctly. The "smart host"
(read VSNL) will try to resolve the sender in the From: line. It doesn't
care what the local sendmail identifies itself as (i.e helo domain.com
doesn't matter)
I'm sure I've confused things even further, but I think everyone
understands and can't really communicate that perfectly :)
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