(PARTIAL): Sendmail - remove host from reply/from field
2007-12-25 9:32:00
The original posting:
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* Until recently, we were running an older version of Sun's sendmail, *
* but have now upgraded to Sendmail 8.8.5. We had our reply/from *
* field set as follows: *
* *
* worsham@aer.com *
* *
* instead of: *
* *
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* Does anyone understand the new rulesets (I barely understood the *
* old ones, and now they've changed them ;-( ) enough to lend a *
* hand? We'd like to strip the hostname from all outgoing mail, and *
* just have the username@domainname. Our sendmail.cf is currently *
* identical to the generic solaris sendmail.cf. *
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One additional note: OS level - Solaris 2.5.1.
Now for responses:
They fell into two categories:
1) use the MASQUERADE_AS option in building sendmail.cf
i.e. build sendmail.cf using the following parameters:
(in the .mc file)
divert(0)dnl
VERSIONID(`@(#)aer.mc 97/02/10 $')
OSTYPE(solaris2)dnl
DOMAIN(generic)dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(aer.com)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)
EXPOSED_USER(root)
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
This produces the following change in the standard sendmail.cf
# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
DM
changes to
DM aer.com
2) the other suggestion was to simply do the above change without
modifying the .mc file and reruning m4.
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This simply forced all email to "masquerade" as coming from our
main mailhost, but did NOT remove the hostname from the reply/from
field. So I'm still left with the original problem, and no solution
in sight. I also have a second, albeit minor problem, it there a
version of sendmail.cf for subsidiary machines which works with
sendmail 8.8.5?
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Thanks to all respondents:
Marina Daniels <Marina.Daniels@ccd.tas.gov.au>
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>
Claus Assmann <ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de>
Karl E. Vogel <vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil>
Ellen March <emarch@pinole1.com>
Dan Pritts <danno@aa.fv.com>
Frank Pardo <fpardo@tisny.com>
Christopher L. Barnard <cbarnard@cs.uchicago.edu>
Reto Lichtensteiger <rali@meitca.com>
Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>
Phil Ritzenthaler <phil@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>
John Justin Hough <john@oncology.uthscsa.edu>
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Any further feedback is appreciated,
-- Bob
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