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Article #3679Re: .cw/.cf config problem with local & internet hostname - help appreciated
From: thomskiNOSP Paul Thomas
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 00:00
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On 21 Mar 1998 01:35:53 GMT, pete@phoenix.fire (Peter Chant) wrote: >In article <3512b6aa.1604872@news.demon.co.uk>, > thomskiNOSP@M@hotmail.com (Paul Thomas) writes: ><mostly snipped> >> >> >> Also, I have e-mail forwarding using grange.com, which gets sent to >> the same address as thegrangecs.demon.co.uk >> > >It looks like you will need to masquerade your internal email addresses >as they pass through your linux box. Read the readme file in /usr/doc/sendmail >for help on this, presuming you have it, I run Slackware. You need to write >a sendmail.mc file and run m4 on it to create a sendmail.cf file. > >You could directly edit the sendmail.cf file. > >Make sure that your Win95 boxes use the gateway machine as a relay. I >had a problem when my K6 machine, which accesses demon via my gateway machine >send mail out directly, avoiding sendmail on the gateway, thus mail was >not masqueraded. > >I hope that this is coherent as it is rather late. :-) > >I hope this is what you wanted. > >-- >Peter Chant >pete@neither.demon.co.uk 1:35 am - not bad! On that basis, as long as I employ a rulset to re-write the sender address's - it doesn't matter that the sendmail configuration reports 'gcsintranet.com' (my localname) as being the host - rather than thegrangecs.demon.co.uk If so, not a problem as now I know whats going on - but is that normal? Or was Cheers, Paul
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac57,e0d808cb8b78d9c0 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac57,public X-Google-Thread: 108f6a,e0d808cb8b78d9c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid108f6a,public X-Google-Thread: 10de99,e0d808cb8b78d9c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10de99,public X-Google-Thread: 10669a,e0d808cb8b78d9c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10669a,public From: thomskiNOSP@M@hotmail.com (Paul Thomas) Subject: Re: .cw/.cf config problem with local & internet hostname - help appreciated Date: 1998/03/21 Message-ID: <35140646.39360153@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 336316574 References: <3512b6aa.1604872@news.demon.co.uk> <6ev5hp$r9j$1@phoenix.fire> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: thegrangecs.demon.co.uk [194.222.134.168] Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,demon.tech.unix,comp.os.linux.networking,demon.ip.support.unix