Need help with a strange mail/domain problem!

[Thomas Beutler]

> On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:56:25PM +0200, Thomas Beutler wrote:
>
>> The server accepts incoming mail all right - no problems there... BUT...
>> ...whatever I do, all outgoing mail get the address
>> user at visthusboden.beutler.se instead of user at beutler.se
>
>You need to build yourself a customised sendmail configuration, which
>you can do in the following way.
>
>   % cd /etc/mail
>  # make
>
> (# here implies you'll need root privileges to do this command) This
> will create a file named after your host (referred to as
> `hostname`.mc) which can be processed through the macro processor
> m4(1) in order to generate a sendmail configuration file.
>
> Now, edit the `hostname`.mc file and add lines according to the
> following patch:
>
> --- visthusboden.beutler.se.mc.old      Sat Jul  5 13:22:31 2003
> +++ visthusboden.beutler.se.mc  Sat Jul  5 13:25:09 2003
> @@ -54,6 +54,12 @@
> FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable')
> FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')
>
> +FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl
> +FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
> +FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl
> +MASQUERADE_AS(`beutler.se')dnl
> +MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`beutler.se')dnl
> +
> dnl Uncomment to allow relaying based on your MX records.
> dnl NOTE: This can allow sites to use your server as a backup MX without
> dnl       your permission.
>
> Now, process the `hostname`.mc file into a sendmail configuration
> file, install it as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and restart sendmail so it
> picks up the changes.
>
>    # make all
>    # make install
>    # make restart_mta
>
> Et voila.
>
> Read the file /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README for details about how to
> generate a sendmail configuration.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew

Thank you *very* much Matthew (and thanks also to Stacey, Jamie and Bill)
!!! :-)
Though the FreeBSD manual is quite good as manulas go, this particular part
about masquerading
I found a little bit confusing. But Matthew's explanation made it all clear
to me. Again, thanks!

Kind Regards
/Thomas