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Re: sendmail and mail clients

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From: Craig Artley
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:43
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In article <1992Oct13.220907.40827@slate.mines.colorado.edu> cartley@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Craig Artley) writes:
>If I send mail to the outside world from one of the mail clients,
>shouldn't it still appear to be from cartley@"mailhost", rather than
>cartley@"client"?  The reason I ask is that the name of the mailhost is
>likely to be a permanent feature, while some of the clients may be only
>temporary (due to name changes, network changes, etc.).  Therefore, I
>would prefer that outgoing mail contains the name of the permanent
>mailhost rather than the client.
>
>I suspect that this would be an easy thing to do with the sendmail
>configuration file.  Does anyone know how to do it?

I've received many requests for a summary of the answers.  Here it is:
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That's it.  No one who knows how to do this has shared the answer.
I'm still surprised that NeXT doesn't build this into the
sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf, as it would seem to be the desired default
behavior for a mail client.

	-craig
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Craig Artley      cartley@mines.colorado.edu      (303) 273-3557
Dept. of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO  80401
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From: cartley@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Craig Artley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail and mail clients
Summary: No one knows how to do it.
Keywords: sendmail mailhost
Message-ID: <1992Oct15.184319.38325@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:43:19 GMT
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