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Article #2918Masking system names
From: David Neal
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1988 06:53
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1988 06:53
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Greetings,
I want to hack my sendmail.cf (I think) so that my machine
name changes. Do I do this in ruleset 0 where it handles local
or do I do it in ruleset 3 (for pre-processing)? Or do I do it at all.
Perhaps if I explained exactly what I need to do:
Real World:
dave@merit.houston.tx.us
or similar bangpath needs to become:
dave@sun1
)(or sun1.merit if you prefer)
All of our mail comes into one place a machine called sun1
(yes, I know I didn't pick the name and can't change it)(
in the domain merit. We are running yellow pages. It also
thinks the domain is merit.
So, I need to hack incoming and outgoing uucp traffic to maskl
my idiotic choice of machine name to an ok domain name.
The other thin
BTW This -- This mauy\y not belogng here, but let me run it past you guys...
I can't find the docs on hostmailhosts anywhere. Even though I have
uucp the L.sys files setup mailing to "joe!outsideuucp" blowsup up.
I get host unknown error messages. (sigh)
I have read the sendmail docs front to back, but it they do not discuss
the philiosophy of remappingyour your host name. Suggestonsions?
David NEal
{killer!bellcore}texbel!nuchat!abbadon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!abbadon From: abbadon@nuchat.UUCP (David Neal) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Masking system names Keywords: uucp sendmail ergh m4 blech Message-ID: <2659@nuchat.UUCP> Date: 12 Nov 88 06:53:57 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx Lines: 36