[SunHELP] Sendmail..

[Chris David]

Thanks Jim. Hope that will help!





>From: Jim Pennino <jimp at specsol.com>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Sendmail..
>Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 13:16:11 -0800
>
>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?
> >
> > 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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>Use masquerading.
>
>http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html
>
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>Jim Pennino
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