sendmail has a masquerade option, postfix probably does too since its a
drop in replacement.

if you masquerade as say mydomain.com no matter what domain the sender
uses it'll get changed to mydomain.com ..is that what your lookin for ?

nate

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote:

matthe >I'm not sure if this is what the original poster wanted, but...
matthe >
matthe >Is is possible to masquerade a single email address in the same way the
matthe >IP-Masq masquerades a single internet connection? By this I mean, to
matthe >have a debian box receive emails via a single address, and be able to
matthe >distribute each one to the intended recipient on the internal LAN.
matthe >
matthe >There are dodgy ways you could do this, of course... like have the
matthe >sender put the login name of the recipient in the subject somewhere,
matthe >which exim/sendmail would rewrite the mail header with... but that's too
matthe >much to expect the sender to do. You could also try writing some 'smart
matthe >filter' which would try to identify the recipent from the contents of
matthe >the email (most personal letters would probably start with 'Name,' or
matthe >similar... but then of course there are problems with nicknames, non
matthe >personal letters etc...). What I'm looking for is a better solution.
matthe >
matthe >Matthew
matthe >
matthe >Colin Watson wrote:
matthe >> 
matthe >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
matthe >> >Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from
matthe >> >my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local
matthe >> >LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains
matthe >> >rules but I stopped at sendmail. I want to relay mail for the local
matthe >> >machines and put the mail into a queue if it goes to the inet but
matthe >> >deliver immediatelly inside the LAN. The domain has the name
matthe >> >"linbase.org" (not registreted) so all of the outgoing mails have to
matthe >> >have "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (the valid mail address) at the From:
matthe >> >and in the Reply-to: fields, not [EMAIL PROTECTED]
matthe >> 
matthe >> Can't help you with sendmail, I'm afraid, but it's almost trivial with
matthe >> exim:
matthe >> 
matthe >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]      frF
matthe >> 
matthe >> ... in the "rewrite configuration" section.
matthe >> 
matthe >> >Please, help me, how to setup this ! I welcome any URLs, RTFMs,
matthe >> >HOWTOs if it's apart from the "official" docs in the distros,
matthe >> >because I have already read through them but (maybe I'm too dumb
matthe >> >or overlooked something) found nothing to my special problem.
matthe >> 
matthe >> exim's (excellent) documentation is in /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz
matthe >> (there's also an HTML version); the documentation on address rewriting
matthe >> is in chapter 32.
matthe >> 
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