Subject: simple sendmail hub
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@lowden.schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/11/2001 02:01:33
Hi,
I'm sure I have a simple sendmail question, but hours of reading the docs
don't make it look easy.
If someone will tell me just what to do, I'll submit a FAQ item for it.
My main box is named "lowden" and runs NetBSD 1.5 in my living room
at 192.168.1.1. I think of it as being in the tiny domain I have here
called "schemamania.org".
It's running an unmodified sendmail (uses the default configuration), so
mail from mutt carries a "from" address of
jklowden@lowden.schemamania.org. You can't send mail there because
it's a non-routed ip address behind a NAT firewall.
I want to "rewrite" (I think) the from address to
read: jklowden@schemamania.org.
In a related question, I do receive mail @schemamania.org (on a host
called "home"), but that sendmail plunks the mail into its local spool
instead of forwarding it to "lowden". I get around this with a .forward file,
but I'd like to know what the right way is.
Do I really have to learn m4 and build a half dozen files to do this?
I'm guessing that as DSL gains adherents, more people will want to do
this sort of thing. That's why I'm volunteering to document the easy
answer, assuming there is one.
Thanks for any help. I realize this isn't a netbsd question and I know
sendmail is a very big tool for such a simple job, but I like its
granddaddiness and I *know* it can do this. If only I don't go cross-eyed
in the process.
--jkl