Subject: Re: [netbsd]: Sendmail and Hairpulling.
To: J. Buck Caldwell <buckaroo@liveround.com>
From: Tim Bandy <bandy@timn8r.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/03/2002 17:15:47
>>>>> "J" == J Buck Caldwell <buckaroo@liveround.com> writes:
J> So I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've got a
J> machine set up hosting my domain and I'm trying to configure
J> Sendmail. The machine is ns1.(domain).org, and when I send
J> mail, it claims to come from root@ns1.(domain).org, and the
J> only way I can send mail to it is send it to
J> root@ns1.(domain).org. I would like to be able to take that
J> 'ns1.' out of there. I get the feeling I'm doing something
J> wrong with DNS, but I don't know what. Any help would be
J> appreciated.
Look at masquerading. There's some good information still at
http://www.sendmail.org. If you look at
http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html, you should see an option
called
MASQUERADE_AS(host.domain).
Simply put that in your m4 config file, and rebuild your cf file, and
restart sendmail.
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