sendmail on server with ip aliases

[Matthew Seaman]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:56:58 -0400, "D W" <lists at duanewinner.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Having a problem with sendmail on some of my servers supporting several
>> virtual apache hosts. Because these servers have 5-10 ip aliases bound, it
>> sometimes trips up sendmail when sending outbound mail to my smarthost. All
>> servers are configured to use the same smarthost. But on one of the hosts,
>> sendmail will send out as the one of the virtual hosts instead of the main
>> host, which is what I need.
>>
>> Example: webhost01.webdomain.com is the host.
>> Five ip aliases for apache virtual servers:
> 
> Something is probably missing below the last quoted line.
> 
> Are you using jails for the virtual hosts?  If not, then you are
> probably using *one* Sendmail instance for all the domains, which still
> sends emails as the primary hostname but should work fine...
> 

You can also force sendmail to send /from/ a specific IP by putting some
something like the following into /etc/mail/$(hostname).mc 

dnl Send via the IP number that correctly reverses to our EHLO
CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA, Family=inet, Addr=12.34.56.78')

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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