Derek Martin wrote:
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.
That would be true if the mail were being submitted from "root". If the
submission is from "root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" then the bare minimum
requirement would be masquerading (without "root" as an EXPOSED_USER)
to map that to "root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Without knowing exactly how the
mail is being submitted there's no way to know whether that would work.
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Bob Nichols Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
