On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:05:11PM -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > For root, you can't get away with just eliminating "root" as an > EXPOSED_USER in sendmail.mc and relying on MASQUERADE_DOMAIN because > that will result in translating root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" to > "root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx", which would be very wrong. This is absolutely true, positively. Except that for Jay's purposes, it probably doesn't matter. If he's only trying to send mail out to himself, and will be careful not to use the address for any other purpose (i.e. he doesn't intend to reply to the message) then it doesn't really matter what the address is, so long as it is a "valid" one (in this case, not localhost.localdomain, and probably something that's resolvable, depending on his ISP). Strictly speaking, to solve Jay's problem, all that is really required is to make sendmail stop sending mail out as localhost.localdomain. I believe that the easiest solution to that problem *should* be to just set LOCAL_DOMAIN to some reasonable value in the *.mc files, re-make the config files, and restart sendmail. Even masquerading really shouldn't be necessary. All that extra stuff I suggested before is probably not all that helpful... I must have had too much tequila when I wrote it. ;-) Sorry. That said... > You can use genericstable to translate root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > to some other real address. You'll want to uncomment the > "FEATURE(`genericstable')" line in your sendmail.mc and include a > line like the following in /etc/mail/genericstable: > > root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This is good advice, and should work. It's probably the Right Thing(tm), barring registering one's own domain and getting it to resolve properly. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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