[SOLVED] sendmail: from virtual address changed to maindomain

[Roberto Nunnari]

hehe.. as usual.. the computer is always right!

my fault.. seeing that 'make all' generates hostname.cf
thought that was enough and never typed make install..

ahh...

Best regards.
Robi


Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> Hello Matthew.
> Thank you for your reply.
> 
> please see my comments below.
> 
> 
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>>> yes. here it is.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Robi.
>>>
>>>
>>> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> entries in hostname.mc
>>>>> FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')
>>>>> FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')
>>>>> GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains')
>>>>>
>>>>> MX hostnames are all A records.
>>>>>
>>>>> well, as long as the users receive/send emails from/to external 
>>>>> domains
>>>>> everything works just fine, but when:
>>>>>
>>>>> john at mydomain1.com sends to jack at mydomain1.com or viceversa
>>>>>
>>>>> the message gets to the right user, but the from header is
>>>>> changed to john at maindomain.com, mailbox that doesn't exists!
>>>>
>>>> could you please show whole hostname.mc
>>
>>
>> I assume that you've commented out all of the MASQUERADE and GENERICS 
>> stuff
>> as part of your attempt to debug the problem and that you ultimately 
>> intend
>> to enable those capabilities.
> 
> Not sure.. I had masquerading enabled long ago.. but then I took
> it out and it was working just fine, because the host is already
> in the right domain.. but now that I need to add virtualdomains
> I think I may need it.. right?
> 
> 
>>
>> Hmmm... not entirely certain, but I believe the part you are missing is:
>>
>> FEATURE(limited_masquerade)dnl
> 
> Tried that, but doesn't help.. but.. one thing that looks odd
> to me is this:
> # sendmail -bt
> ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
> Enter <ruleset> <address>
>  > /map generics a
> Map named "generics" not found
>  >
>  > /map virtuser a
> map_lookup: virtuser (a) no match (0)
> 
> 
> see? it says that it doesn't know about the generics map!
> 
> Any more thoughts on this, please?
> 
> Best regards.
> Robi
> 
> 
>>
>> This causes sendmail to only apply masquerading to the domains listed in
>> class {M} -- ie. what is listed in /etc/mail/generics-domains.  Without
>> that sendmail will also masquerade for any host in class {w} which 
>> includes
>> any contents of /etc/mail/local-host-names,  all the interfaces of your
>> server by IP and any names those interfaces resolve into as well.  You
>> can see what the resulting lists are on your system by running
>>
>>   sendmail -bt
>>
>> and then typing $=w or $=M at the prompt.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Matthew
>>
> 
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