[SunHELP] Sendmail..

[Chris David]

The mailserver is not using sendmail program. My problem is mail is sent 
from the hidden server as root@<machinename>.domainname.com
but if it go as root at domainname.com then everything is fine?
How to do this?

Thanks









>From: Jim Pennino <jimp at specsol.com>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Sendmail..
>Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:46:43 -0800
>
>On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:26:07PM +0000, Chris David wrote:
> > Hi
> > Iam having a solaris box running Sol8 (say Machine X) which is hidden to
> > outside world. It cannot send messages using its own smtp (blocked in
> > firewall and highly secured). This machine is using another maiserver 
>(Say
> > Y) which can handle mail for this server. But this mailserver is set so
> > that only authenticated users can send and recv. mail to avoid relay. 
>When
> > iam sending mail from the hidden server using
> > mailserver, it says it needs authentication. The problem, when machine X 
>is
> > contacting the mail server as root at X.somedomain.com?
> > Is there any way i can configure in the hidderserver's sendmail.cf a 
>valid
> > user name and passwd, so that the mail should route throuh that user?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>I don't think so. When sendmail forwards mail to another server, there
>is no associated user.
>
>You could add machine X to machine y's accessdb file.
>
>--
>Jim Pennino
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