Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-17 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 16, 2007, at 20:01, Ben Scott wrote: > Now that > you know that, what can you do that you couldn't before? :-) Your hostnames aren't bad. From the HELO strings I've been seeing, now that I sometimes pay attention, I see very generic outside names like mx1 and inside names like NETWAR

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-16 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/16/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So that may not be doing what you want, because it leaves $w >> set to whatever it used to be set to, and you seem to be implying your >> system's hostname is somehow bogus for purposes of Sendmail. > > Right, in this case Sendmail needs to

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 13, 2007, at 16:40, Ben Scott wrote: > So that may not be doing what you want, because it leaves $w > set to whatever it used to be set to, and you seem to be implying your > system's hostname is somehow bogus for purposes of Sendmail. Right, in this case Sendmail needs to HELO with a val

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/13/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason the problems I seem to run into seem to do not have > an .mc macro defined. :( Sometimes I can find a hint online, but > the community seems to be sparse. I've long suspected that some people just have bad karma with certa

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-12 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 9, 2007, at 21:25, Ben Scott wrote: > What would be needed to configure Postfix on SATURN to rewrite > "From" addresses (masquerade, in Sendmail terms) for Steven's machines > to be <@syslang.net>? Don't forget it has to rewrite mail from PLUTO > as well as locally-originated mail. For

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-10 Thread Christopher Chisholm
Steven W. Orr wrote: > I have a linux box "saturn" running sendmail which is the "hub" where the > MX record for my domain points. > > I have a box inside the house called "pluto" that sends all its mail to > saturn using SMART_HOST for delivery. All is good in the universe. > > When sending mail

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/9/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >/etc/postfix/transport > to have the lines: >root: >* : smtp:saturn.syslang.net I take it that means, in essence, "no special rule for user 'root', so do what is normally done (deliver locally); send everything else to SATURN"?

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
Wow! Impressive reply, Ben. At the risk of incurring rotten fruit, alternately one could configure: /etc/postfix/transport to have the lines: root: * : smtp:saturn.syslang.net (I think, untested) and, include it in: /etc/postfix/main.cf with: transport_maps = hash:/etc/pos

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Ben Scott
After an off-list conversation with Steven Orr , I have a better idea of what he's after. SYMPTOMS Steven has hosts SATURN and PLUTO, and a registered domain name . He wants SATURN to be responsible for most mail delivery. The MX records in the public DNS effectively tell the world to deliv

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 9, 2007, at 16:04, Steven W. Orr wrote: > When sending mail from pluto, I want the addresses that the message is > sent to, to be changed so that *any* address that is bound for > syslang.net > does not get sent to pluto.syslang.net. All addresses on saturn are > valid > on pluto, but

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/9/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When sending mail from pluto, I want the addresses that the message is > sent to, to be changed so that *any* address that is bound for syslang.net > does not get sent to pluto.syslang.net. I'm not sure I follow what you mean on the above. D

sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-09 Thread Steven W. Orr
I have a linux box "saturn" running sendmail which is the "hub" where the MX record for my domain points. I have a box inside the house called "pluto" that sends all its mail to saturn using SMART_HOST for delivery. All is good in the universe. When sending mail from pluto, I want the addresses