Sendmail mungs sender address SOLVED

orville weyrich weyrich_comp at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 4 21:45:52 PST 2004


Thanks to those who replied.  I solved the problem by
building a new sendmail.cf file with the following
added features not found in the stock freebsd.cf:

define(`SMART_HOST',`FIRE')
FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)
MASQUERADE_AS(`MYDOMAIN.COM')

and tweeking my /etc/hosts file on BASHFUL

--- orville weyrich <weyrich_comp at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was running a FreeBSD 4.3 system.  It crashed and
> I
> built up a new FreeBSD 4.10 system.  But I cannot
> get
> Sendmail to work the way it did before.  
> 
> The relevant part of my network includes two hosts,
> call them FIRE and BASHFUL.  FIRE is my firewall
> machine,  It runs FreeBSD 4.3 and has not changed. 
> It
> relays mail from my internal network to the world
> and
> back.  BASHFUL is behind the firewall, is my new
> 4.10
> machine, and is configured to use FIRE as its "smart
> host."   FIRE is known to the universe as
> FIRE.MYDOMAIN.COM.
> 
> I want mail sent from BASHFUL to carry a sender
> address of me at MYDOMAIN.COM.  Instead it carries a
> sender address of me at mailhost.MYDOMAIN.COM (if sent
> from pine on BASHFUL) or me at localhost.MYDOMAIN.COM
> (if
> sent from a command-line invocation of sendmail
> itself).  All changes to sendmail.cf and pine
> configuration seem to be ignored).
> 
> What has changed that my outgoing mail is broken? 
> My
> incoming mail works fine.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Orville Weyrich
> 
> 
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