Aaron, While what you've said is quite true, it's not the end of the story. There can be a legitimate need to rewrite e-mail address return addresses for command line programs like mutt, etc... While I have no idea how to do it in sendmail, in postfix, you can use the "sender_canonical_maps" parameter in /etc/postfix/main.cf to accomplish this. I'm using exactly this setup on a box I'm running with great results. For virtual domain I host we have defined the following line in /etc/postfix/main.cf:
sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/maps/sender_map And in the file sender_map it's just a list of logins and their full e-mail address. (Specifically, what it does is map between unqualified addresses, that is addresses without a domain on them and fully quailified addresses). For instance: # sender_maps file user1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] user2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] user3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This seems to be exactly what you're looking for, Mark. Right? There's almost certainly a similar feature in sendmail that some of the sendmail gurus (*cough* Jon Carnes *cough*) can tell you about. Cheers, Tanner On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:11:51 -0500, Aaron S. Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Fowle wrote: > > > The users outbound mail is defaulting to the default domain -- Should > > I not have "default domain" in Sendmail? > > > The real pertinent question here is, what client are the user's using to > send mail? Because you're asking the question, I'm going to guess that > they're using some local ssh-based mail client such as pine or mutt, in > which case you'll need to set the "from" address in each client (or > directly in it's appropriate configuration file). From address is > something that's always controlled from the client's perspective - which > is part of why email is so easily forged. > > If of course my guess it off, let us know what email client you're using > and we'll see what we can figure out for you. :) > > Aaron S. Joyner > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=8127171 (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
