Sendmail masquerading configuration

[Ian Moore]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:58, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ian Moore
> > Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:07 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Sendmail masquerading configuration
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm hoping someone can help me with this.
> >
> > I want to make sendmail (on a 5.3-Release server) leave the
> > host name out of
> > the sender address when sending mail from that machine.
> > I.E. mail from root currently has a sender address of
> > root at myhost.foo.bar, I
> > want it to be root at foo.bar instead.
>
> Not possible, I think, as I recall masquerading only works on
> users not in the T macro. (ie: Trusted Users)  root is
> most definitely in this macro.

I guess even if I redirect root's mail to another user & forward that to my 
account on the ISP's server, it wouldn't work for the same reason.

> Masquerading is a bullshit way of doing this kind of
> thing anyhow.  Use the -f switch if your calling the sendmail
> binary directly from programs.  If your using /bin/mail
> as a MUA, then get a better one like Elm or Pine that
> lets you do this.

It's mail from cron, periodic etc. that I want to redirect to my work email 
account, so i can tell if my server is still alive when I'm on holidays.
This wasn't a problem until a few days ago when our ISP started blocking mail 
with a hostname attached.

Cheers,
-- 
Ian

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