Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-17 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 16, 2007, at 20:01, Ben Scott wrote: Now that you know that, what can you do that you couldn't before? :-) Your hostnames aren't bad. From the HELO strings I've been seeing, now that I sometimes pay attention, I see very generic outside names like mx1 and inside names like

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 13, 2007, at 16:40, Ben Scott wrote: So that may not be doing what you want, because it leaves $w set to whatever it used to be set to, and you seem to be implying your system's hostname is somehow bogus for purposes of Sendmail. Right, in this case Sendmail needs to HELO with a valid

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-16 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/16/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So that may not be doing what you want, because it leaves $w set to whatever it used to be set to, and you seem to be implying your system's hostname is somehow bogus for purposes of Sendmail. Right, in this case Sendmail needs to HELO with

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/13/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason the problems I seem to run into seem to do not have an .mc macro defined. :( Sometimes I can find a hint online, but the community seems to be sparse. I've long suspected that some people just have bad karma with certain

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-12 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 9, 2007, at 21:25, Ben Scott wrote: What would be needed to configure Postfix on SATURN to rewrite From addresses (masquerade, in Sendmail terms) for Steven's machines to be @syslang.net? Don't forget it has to rewrite mail from PLUTO as well as locally-originated mail. For the

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-10 Thread Christopher Chisholm
Steven W. Orr wrote: I have a linux box saturn running sendmail which is the hub where the MX record for my domain points. I have a box inside the house called pluto that sends all its mail to saturn using SMART_HOST for delivery. All is good in the universe. When sending mail from pluto,

sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Steven W. Orr
I have a linux box saturn running sendmail which is the hub where the MX record for my domain points. I have a box inside the house called pluto that sends all its mail to saturn using SMART_HOST for delivery. All is good in the universe. When sending mail from pluto, I want the addresses that

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/9/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When sending mail from pluto, I want the addresses that the message is sent to, to be changed so that *any* address that is bound for syslang.net does not get sent to pluto.syslang.net. I'm not sure I follow what you mean on the above. Does

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 9, 2007, at 16:04, Steven W. Orr wrote: When sending mail from pluto, I want the addresses that the message is sent to, to be changed so that *any* address that is bound for syslang.net does not get sent to pluto.syslang.net. All addresses on saturn are valid on pluto, but I

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Ben Scott
After an off-list conversation with Steven Orr steveo, I have a better idea of what he's after. SYMPTOMS Steven has hosts SATURN and PLUTO, and a registered domain name syslang.net. He wants SATURN to be responsible for most mail delivery. The MX records in the public DNS effectively tell

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
Wow! Impressive reply, Ben. At the risk of incurring rotten fruit, alternately one could configure: /etc/postfix/transport to have the lines: root: * : smtp:saturn.syslang.net (I think, untested) and, include it in: /etc/postfix/main.cf with: transport_maps =

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/9/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/postfix/transport to have the lines: root: * : smtp:saturn.syslang.net I take it that means, in essence, no special rule for user 'root', so do what is normally done (deliver locally); send everything else to SATURN? Does