Sendmail genericstable help, please

[stan]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:08:35PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-09-18 22:25, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > I;m trying to set up a 4.11 STABLE machine to act as the mailhost
> > for a buch of virtual doamins. I'm planning on having "users" on
> > the machien for each user/doaimn pair. I've got the incoming
> > side of this working well with the Sendmail that came with 4.11
> > (Not the ports version if it matters). I've done this with
> > /etc/mail/virtusertable and appropruate configuration in the.mc file.
> >
> > Now, I;m trying to get the outbound side of it workig, and I'm
> > not having much luck.
> >
> > I've crate /etc/mail/genericstable and it looks like this:
> >
> > stan    stan at i-v-o.net
> 
> I think you have to use a fully qualified hostname in the left hand
> side too here, i.e.:
> 
> 	stan at foo.example.net		stan at i-v-o.net
> 
> where foo.example.net is your local hostname.
> 
> > I'v also created /etc/mail/generics-domains it looks like this:
> >
> > i-v-o.net
> >
> > I've added the following to both ops2.ivo.net.mc and ops2.ivo.net.submit.mc
> >
> > MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`ops2.i-v-o.net')
> > FEATURE(`genericstable', `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')
> > GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains')
> > FEATURE(`allmasquerade')
> > FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')
> > FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain')
> 
> Remove the -o option from genericstable.  It means that the generics
> table lookup is optional and Sendmail will continue posting the
> messages (probably using the wrong address, as you've discovered) even
> if there's something wrong with your generics table setup
> 
> > I've dome a make ; make install ; make restart sequence in /etc/mail, and
> > I've set up muut to use a From of stan at i-v-o.net Yet still the message
> > (sent from the machine to the machine) contains:
> 
> Setting up mutt is unnecessary.
> 

Thanks for the help.

I thought I'd post as to what I did to finally get this working. 

I had to add the following:

MASQUERADE_AS(i-v-o.net)

Acording to the sendmail docs this needs to be a space seperated list of
domains that we are willing to masqureade for. In addition it appears that
if the domsin(s) you want to masquerade for are ont in
/etc/mail/local-host-names  m then you need to add:

MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(i-v-o.net)

It appears as though this is possible to replace with  something like:

GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains')

Although I have not gotten this to work yet.

Having said all of that, this may just be a hack to get things working.
I'll try your sugestions this evening. I hope they work, as I'd prefer to
have all of this stored in a file that is read at runtime, as oposed to one
that I have to restart sendmail to read (the .mc/.cf files).

Thansk again for the adivce, I'll report back (if only for the archives)
after I try the above sugestiosn.


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