How do I change the envelope from address in sendmail
Bill Moran
Sendmail on my system insists on using the entire hostname in the from part of the
smtp communication: i.e. wmo...@machinename.potentialtech.com. This is a problem
because this particular machine doesn't have a real DNS name, so the FreeBSD mail
servers bounce the email.
I've tried creating a local-host-names file in /etc/mail according to some Linux
howtos I found, but it doesn't seem to be helping. What's the proper way to
get sendmail to use us...@domain.com instead of us...@machine.domain.com?
TIA
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Jonathan Chen
[...]
> howtos I found, but it doesn't seem to be helping. What's the proper way to
> get sendmail to use us...@domain.com instead of us...@machine.domain.com?
You have to add the following into your /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc file.
MASQUERADE_AS(domain.com)
FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')
Cheers.
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Bill Moran
Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:33:07PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>howtos I found, but it doesn't seem to be helping. What's the proper way to
>>get sendmail to use us...@domain.com instead of us...@machine.domain.com?
>
>
> You have to add the following into your /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc file.
>
> MASQUERADE_AS(domain.com)
> FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')
Thanks, but this hasn't helped. Any suggestions on what I could be doing
wrong?
I added the two lines above to my .mc file and did a 'make; make restart' in
the /etc/mail directory. The results are the same. My .mc file is stock
otherwise except I've defined a SMART_HOST.
Any ideas?
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
_______________________________________________
James Long
> >
> > You have to add the following into your /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc file.
> >
> > MASQUERADE_AS(domain.com)
> > FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')
>
> Thanks, but this hasn't helped. Any suggestions on what I could be doing
> wrong?
YMMV, but I find that this works if I put it in my `hostname`.submit.mc
file.
Kevin Stevens
> I'm having a hell of a time with send-pr.
See thread below from the comp.mail.sendmail Usenet group; this is what
worked for me after I had the same problem:
Begin forwarded message:
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
> Organization: Sporadic
> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.2 (PPC Mac OS X)
> Message-ID: <Kevin_Stevens-214E49.21564606082002@babelfish>
> Return-Path: Kevin_...@hotmail.com
> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Aug 2002 04:56:52.0260 (UTC)
> FILETIME=[D8612E40:01C23DCE]
>
> I know the regulars here must be incredibly tired of responding to the
> same questions over and over. I apologize in advance, but I *have*
> read
> through all the masquerading posts I could find in this group, the
> sendmail FAQ, and the FreeBSD handbook. I'm at a loss. Please don't
> hurt me.
>
> Typical goal: I want my messages, including envelopes, to appear as
> though they are from my domain name rather than the specific host.
>
> Sendmail is version 8.12.3, running on FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE.
>
> Here's an example of a local test message with headers:
>
> From: Kevin Stevens <K...@pursued-with.net>
> Date: Tue Aug 06, 2002 09:37:55 US/Pacific
> To: f...@pursued-with.net
> Subject: test
> Return-Path: <K...@pursued-with.net>
> Received: from babelfish.pursued-with.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by
> babelfish.pursued-with.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g774bteb056372
> for <f...@pursued-with.net>; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:37:55 -0700 (PDT)
> (envelope-from K...@babelfish.pursued-with.net)
> Received: (from root@localhost) by babelfish.pursued-with.net
> (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g774btRg056371 for f...@pursued-with.net; Tue,
> 6 Aug 2002 21:37:55 -0700 (PDT)
> Message-Id: <200208070437....@babelfish.pursued-with.net>
>
> Basically, I want "babelfish." excised in its entirety.
>
> I began with the typical MASQUERADE_AS( ) and
> FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') settings, and have progressed in
> confusion to FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain') and more esoteric
> things. Here's the salient portion of my current .mc file:
>
> FEATURE(access_db, `hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access')
> FEATURE(blacklist_recipients)
> FEATURE(local_lmtp)
> FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable')
> FEATURE(relay_based_on_MX)
> FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl
> MASQUERADE_AS(`pursued-with.net')dnl
> FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
> FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain')dnl
> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/masqueraded-hosts')dnl
> MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`pursued-with.net')dnl
>
> Nothing I do seems to make any difference, which is what's really
> strange. I've tested, and the sendmail.cf file does get updated and
> the
> daemon restarted when using the "make all install restart" format, for
> what that's worth. I can post any other needed info, just ask. Thanks
> for any assistance.
>
> KeS
>> From: p...@hedeland.org (Per Hedeland)
>> Subject: Re: Another stupid masquerading question...
>> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:32:22 +0000 (UTC)
>> Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
>> Message-ID: <aise6m$15qj$2...@hedeland.org>
>>
>> In article <Kevin_Stevens-037D10.00405407082002@babelfish> Kevin
>> Stevens
>> <Kevin_...@Hotmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> a) I don't particularly want to display my internal host names all
>>> over
>>> the world (although apparently I don't mind doing it on Usenet -
>>> eek!).
>>
>> Why do you care, especially if the name can't be found in DNS - are
>> you
>> ashamed of it or something?:-)
>>
>>> b) With this configuration, other SMTP hosts can't authenticate my
>>> mail
>>> server, since that hostname isn't published/resolvable in the outside
>>> world. As below:
>>
>> As Neil points out, this site violates the RFCs, and it's unusual.
>> However the RFCs also say that you should give the "official" name of
>> the host in the HELO argument (or a dotted quad if the host doesn't
>> have
>> an official name), and an official name must be in DNS, so it's
>> reasonable to fix this.
>>
>> The simplest way to do it is to define confDOMAIN_NAME in the .mc
>> file,
>> see cf/README. What to set it to in a case like yours is perhaps not
>> obvious, to be as "correct" as possible it should be a name that
>> resolves to the IP address that remote servers are seeing when you
>> connect, as well as the name that that IP address reverse-resolves to.
>> If you can't meet both of those requirements for some reason (you
>> should
>> be able to), it's probably best to go for the former. And be sure to
>> never set the same confDOMAIN_NAME on two different servers (whereas
>> using the same MASQUERADE_AS on multiple servers can be perfectly OK).
>>
>> --Per Hedeland
>> p...@hedeland.org
Shantanu Mahajan
Regards,
Shantanu
+-- Bill Moran [freebsd] [13-06-03 20:33 -0400]:
| I'm having a hell of a time with send-pr.
|
| Sendmail on my system insists on using the entire hostname in the from part
| of the
| smtp communication: i.e. wmo...@machinename.potentialtech.com. This is a
| problem
| because this particular machine doesn't have a real DNS name, so the
| FreeBSD mail
| servers bounce the email.
|
| I've tried creating a local-host-names file in /etc/mail according to some
| Linux
| howtos I found, but it doesn't seem to be helping. What's the proper way to
| get sendmail to use us...@domain.com instead of us...@machine.domain.com?
|
| TIA
| --
| Bill Moran
| Potential Technologies
| http://www.potentialtech.com
|
|
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Bill Moran
The answer was in the handbook (I should have thought to try there first)
For the archives, this is the section that solved it for me:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-dialup.html
Although I still don't _understand_ what that does ...
Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:18:15PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
>
>>Jonathan Chen wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:33:07PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>
>>>>howtos I found, but it doesn't seem to be helping. What's the proper way
>>>>to
>>>>get sendmail to use us...@domain.com instead of us...@machine.domain.com?
>>>
>>>
>>>You have to add the following into your /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc file.
>>>
>>> MASQUERADE_AS(domain.com)
>>> FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')
>>
>>Thanks, but this hasn't helped. Any suggestions on what I could be doing
>>wrong?
>>
>>I added the two lines above to my .mc file and did a 'make; make restart' in
>>the /etc/mail directory. The results are the same. My .mc file is stock
>>otherwise except I've defined a SMART_HOST.
>
>
> Did you do a "make install" to install the results of your mc file to
> sendmail.cf? About the only other thing I can suggest do to add a:
>
> define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `domain.com')dnl
>
> That should tell sendmail to negotiate as "domain.com" instead of
> machine.domain.com.
>
> Cheers.
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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Chuck Swiger
[ ... ]
> I've tried creating a local-host-names file in /etc/mail according to
Right. This change won't help solve the problem you asked about.
> What's the proper way to get sendmail to use us...@domain.com
> instead of us...@machine.domain.com?
Someone else already provided references to MASQUERADE_AS(), but if you can't
get that working, you can forcibly set it by uncommenting the following line in
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf:
# my official domain name
# ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain
#Dj$w.Foo.COM
...to:
Djdomain.com
[ Using an .mc file is the way to go if at all possible, but the above plus a
"make restart" should do in a pinch. ]
--
-Chuck
Doron Shmaryahu
Have you double checked that it did build a new sendmail.cf file. Also =
you
can directly edit sendmail.cf.
Kind Regards
Doron Shmaryahu
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freeb...@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freeb...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bill Moran
Sent: 14 June 2003 03:23 AM
To: ques...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How do I change the envelope from address in sendmail
[sorry Jon, I'm trying to do 5 things at once and forgot to CC the list]
Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:33:07PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
>=20
> [...]
>=20
>>howtos I found, but it doesn't seem to be helping. What's the proper =
way
to
>>get sendmail to use us...@domain.com instead of =
us...@machine.domain.com?
>=20
>=20
> You have to add the following into your /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc file.
>=20
> MASQUERADE_AS(domain.com)
> FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')
Thanks, but this hasn't helped. Any suggestions on what I could be =
doing
wrong?
I added the two lines above to my .mc file and did a 'make; make =
restart' in
the /etc/mail directory. The results are the same. My .mc file is =
stock
otherwise except I've defined a SMART_HOST.
Any ideas?
--=20
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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