Re: sendmail domain configuration

[Matthew Seaman]

stan wrote:

I am trying to work around some design issues. Some of out FreeBSD macines
must live in a made up domain. As a result from these machines gtes

I have solved this problem on some Soalris machines that also si`uffer from
this same design by settting the doamin macro in thier sendmail.cf as
follows:

Dj$w.realdomain.com

OI know that in FreeBSD I should not edit sendmail.cf directly, but instead
should edit the appropriate .mc file, and remake the .cf file. But I cannot
find the documentation as to how to set this particular sendmail macro from
the .mc file

discarded by an sensible mail handling system. Can anyou give me some guidance here?

/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README documents what you can put into a sendmail .mc
file.  The specific thing you want is:

define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `$w.realdomain.com')dnl

Add this to the `hostname`.mc file, and then just type 'make' in /etc/mail to 
generate a .cf file from it.  To generate and install that .cf file and restart 
sendmail to use it all in one, just do:


        Cheers,

        Matthew

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