config sendmail

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:57:34 -0400, Esmaeel Pashapouri <epashapouri at ca.inter.net> wrote:
> Hello list,
> Having truble sending mail through my ISP.
>
> I have freebsd 7.1 amd-64 generic installed.
>
> With smart host defined for sendmail I get my mails returned
> with unknown sender esmaeel at ca.inter.net.
>
> My user name at ISP is epashapouri and smtp server does not require
> authentication. I added user epashapouri and mail gets out OK.
>
> Is there a way to make sendmail send mail with the user name other than
> login name?

Yes.  What you want is called `genericstable'.

For an example of how I am using genericstable here', see an older
Usenet post I sent a few months ago:

  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/msg/562dc23fca32c37c