mail confusion [ RESOLVED ]

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sun Nov 13 16:36:09 UTC 2005


At 10:29 PM -0600 11/12/05, Jay Moore wrote:
 ...
>For the record, and anyone else that finds himself trying to get
>'smartd' (or other apps that use email notification) to get mail from a
>private network to the Internet...
>
>Two changes are required, both in the '/etc/mail/sendmail.mc' file:
>
>1) enable masquerading - un-comment "MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.com')"

? 1a) set a real domain name that you own for mydomain.com?


>2) don't exclude root from re-writes - comment "EXPOSED_USER(`root')"
>
>You can test your changes before committing them:
>
># /usr/sbin/sendmail -bt -C/etc/mail/experimental.cf
>
>> /tryflags HS
>> /try esmtp root
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