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Started by thomskiNOSP Paul Thomas
Fri, 20 Mar 1998 00:00
.cw/.cf config problem with local & internet hostname - help appreciated
Author: thomskiNOSP Paul Thomas
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 00:00
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I have (well almost) configured a linux machine as a internet gateway and mail server. It is to server aproximately 20 Win95 machines. However I am having trouble configuring the host names. The eth0 port, IP 192.168.1.1 has a name of gcsintranet The ppp0 port (also using diald) is Ip 194.222.134.168 has a name of the thegrangecs, in the domain thegrangecs.demon.co.uk My etc/hosts looks like 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 gcsintranet 194.222.134.168 thegrangecs.demon.co.uk thegrangecs When I run sendmail -d0.11 all domain references are with respect to gcsintranet - not thegrangecs. Therefore all my mail goes out with gcsintranet as the sender. If I don't qualify the gcsintranet with a domain, e.g. .com, the sendmail deamon takes an age running, as does mailq, nslookup etc. How do I reflect this configuration in my sendmail.cf/.cw configuration. I have purchased the 'Bat Book' - however, either it doesn't clearly define how I need to configure my system - or I just don't understand it! 8-0 Also, I have e-mail forwarding using grange.com, which gets sent to the same address as thegrangecs.demon.co.uk Any help would be most appreciated. Many tia Paul.
Re: .cw/.cf config problem with local & internet hostname - help appreciated
Author: Peter Chant
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 00:00
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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
Re: .cw/.cf config problem with local & internet hostname - help appreciated
Author: 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
Re: .cw/.cf config problem with local & internet hostname - help appreciated
Author: Peter Chant
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:00
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In article <35140646.39360153@news.demon.co.uk>, thomskiNOSP@M@hotmail.com (Paul Thomas) writes: > > 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 I understand what you mean correctly, I beleive that it will only masquerade domains specified in the .mc file. You may have to add a line for each separate machine, I don't know if wildcards are accepted. I'm afraid I'm no expert, I just found what I needed for my two machines. Maybe someone else can be of assistance. I think you are correct, if I understand correctly. > If so, not a problem as now I know whats going on - but is that > normal? > > Or was > > Cheers, > > Paul Is it normal knowing what is going on? :-) -- Peter Chant pete@neither.demon.co.uk
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