[geeks] Sendmail question

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Jan 27 17:01:29 CST 2003


On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 04:51 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>> DMneurotica.com
>>    This causes mail sent from that machine to appear to have come from
>> "neurotica.com", which doesn't actually exist as a host.
> Ahhh. This only sets the variable "M". It is usesless without the
> correspondig rewrite rules in the .cf file. I think most Linux .cf 
> files
> have these rules already build in. But it can be that you have to
> regenerate the .cf from a .mc that contains the proper macros for
> masquerading.

   Well yeah, no shit, but have you ever seen a sendmail.cf file that 
didn't have those rewrites included as "standard equipment"?  That's 
almost like saying "well yes that'll work but only if you have TCP/IP 
running!"

             -Dave

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