Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx> writes: [...] >> >From another thread I've learned that masquerading doesn't work as I >> thought it did but for years now I've been masquerading what ever >> machines I have at home as `newsguy.com'. I thought I'd learned a way >> of using the `genericstable' to do something similar and not need to >> masquerade. > What exactly does genericstable do? (Sorry, writing this mail off-line) Sorry Mun, I'm finding out I don't know either. I believe my usage is supposed to rewrite my outgoing mail From so that the real name of my host (reader.local.net0 as in reader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) is rewritten to be reader@xxxxxxxxxxx and in fact it does do that. Further along you ask what the contents of my genericstable is supposed to do. ... well it is supposed to do what I lay out above and it does. The problem is I don't really understand what effect that has on how my mail is received on the internet. >> sendmails outgoing activity required a resolvable host as source IP to >> avoid bouncing. I thought by setting some genericstable vars I could >> make it appear to be a resolvable host name. > But it isn't right? newsguy.com isn't a valid Domain Name is it?? Yes, its just not my domain name. > I'm not sure if your solution is a viable solution to my problem. > My Problem. > > @work = mails must be sent out using the corp exhange server (smart host > feature _must_ be implemented via sendmail.mc) > > @home = mails are sent out w/o using smart host. Meaning, I have to > actively re-compile sendmail.mc each time between office and home to > send out emails. Cause @home, mails gets relayed directly to the > receipient's MX. I'm not sure either.. sorry. But I can think of a partial solution. There is really no need to actually recompile sendmail.cf each time. It would suffice to just hand edit the Smart_host entry (in /etc/sendmail.cf not sendmail.mc), and restart sendmail daemon. This could be fairly easy to script and automate, but is really a poor solution in that it doesn't answer the underlaying problem. >> It is not an internet FQDN, just my own made up domain for my local >> lan. Therefore will never be resovable by dns lookups. > Just as I thought. And what/how does this affect mail sending? I thought I new but am finding out my assumptions were incorrect. I can only say for sure that by including two masquerading type entries in sendmail.mc my mail works. Otherwise it does not. MASQUERADE_AS(`whizbang.net')dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl The idea that it needed to be set to `newsguy.com' I have found to be completely mistaken. It seems it can be set to anything. Even fantastic like above. But somehow this makes it work. [...] >> And to /etc/mail/genericstable: >> reader reader@xxxxxxxxxxx > What does this achieve? I don't see a genericstable in my > /etc/mail/ directory It's supposed to achieve what I laid out earlier. genericstable isn't there by default it is user created. > > What's data format error? And I see that your relay is = > smtp.newsguy.com, which resolves to your Inet Public IP. > > For my case, it gets relayed to the localhost (127.0.0.1)'s smtp. which > then hands it over to sendmail to contact the MX. The error I posted is from my local smtp process not newsguy. It just tells us that my relay is smtp.newsguy.com. That error can mean many things I think. I don't know what it means in this case. I've always thought it meant that newsguys smtp machine didn't like my From or sender address. I suspect your problem could be solved with genericstable but I don't know how to do it ...sorry. You'd probably do better by posting a description of your problem on comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup There are good answers there sometimes.
