On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:46:11 +0200, Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Mi, den 04.08.2004 schrieb Yang Xiao um 16:12: > > > > He is looking for > > > > > > define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `abc.com')dnl > > > > > > It is important that the name of the Sendmail host is resolvable. > > > confDOMAIN_NAME $j macro If defined, sets $j. This should > > only be done if your system cannot > > determine your local domain name, > > and then it should be set to > > $w.Foo.COM, where Foo.COM is your > > domain name. > > > > sounds like it should work, but not what it's intended for? > > > > MASQUERADE_AS is more appropriate in this case I think. > > > > Yang > > Hard to decide as the OP did not gave that much information, certainly > because he is not well experienced with mail server configuration. > > When using masquerading he should know that root is an exposed user and > thus is excluded from masquerading. And the OP explicitly mentioned the > case where the sender address should be root@whatever. > > Reading the cf/README is very important anyway. A smarter reading is > provided by the HTML formatted documentation > > http://www.sendmail.org/m4/readme.html > > Alexander > > -- hi, point taken, I just want to add that we should discourage sending ont emails as the root user to the public domain. It's a huge sign saying "I'm new to linux and I'm haven't fully configured my system yet, please come and share it with me." Yang
