I do the same as you. But, I use mutt, which puts on the proper world accessible address (hammershome.com) instead of my private network name jhammer.org (which also exists on the net but its not mine.) All my mail is composed and sent on my box which runs sendmail and also serves as the firewall. Do you think mine works because by serendipity jhammer.org exists in the real world, too? Joel
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:43:41PM -0500, Ian wrote: > OK, > Followed Doug's SxS step and produced in about an hour or less, a fully > functioning sendmail. All but the tweaking...which has turned out to > be far less satisfying. > > >From mail clients on other hosts on my home network, email composed in > say > netscape goes out with the From values set (in netscape) staying as is, > and all seems to be working OK. > > Whenever I send mail from the sendmail machine, which is behind a > firewall w/ port forwarding, the address is always [EMAIL PROTECTED] > which only exists in my little network...although I have the marchak.ca > domain hosted outside, the only official/external NS records are > www.marchak.ca and marchak.ca. > > So, domain masquerading sounded like what I was looking for. I have a > domain through dyndns.org, which I put in /etc/mail/local-host-names and > I can accept mail for marchak.homeip.net...cool. What I wanted to do > was have mail sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is what it would be > when I am logged in locally to the box with sendmail running) to be > changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have a imaps server running and I want to have all my mail bounced to > sent to marchak.homeip.net so I can do away with outside web mail and > just run my services myself...so I have no mailbox size limits except > the ones I put on myself...and because I can. > > But no matter what combination of DM / CM / CG (shooting wildly at then > end) I cannot prevent it from mailing out [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I > send from the sendmail box. Which of course bounces as domain doesn't > exist. > > Can someone more sage in sendmail shed some light on my dim little > picnic? > -- > Linux SxS [http://sxs.homeip.net/] > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
