"From" aliases using mail and sendmail

Malcolm Kay malcolm.kay at internode.on.net
Sun Apr 25 21:38:53 PDT 2004


On Monday 26 April 2004 00:25, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:13:05AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > I really need something like sendmail aliases but
> > operating on outgoing 'from' addresses rather than
> > incoming 'to' addresses.
>
> That's precisely what genericstable is for.  You'll need aliases or
> virtusertable entries as well, to translate the name back to the UID
> when people send replies to that address.
>

After seeming to lose masquerading entirely I now semm to have it 
working.

As far as translation of replies goes, this is not really a problem
here as I retrieve mail from my ISP via POP and fetchmail which stuffs
it directly into the 'malcolm' mailbox.

Thank you Matthew

Malcolm

 



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