[SunHELP] Sendmail..

[Jim Pennino]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:07:01PM +0000, Chris David wrote:
> 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?
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> Thanks
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> >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.
> >
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> >Jim Pennino
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Use masquerading.

http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html

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Jim Pennino