Re: AW: sendmail masqerading

From: Mark Schlechte (mschlechte_at_REGINA.CA)
Date: 03/30/05

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    Date:         Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:24:48 -0600
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    Worked perfectly. The documentation I found was getting me there but your notes just made it straighforward and exactly what I wanted. Thanks a bunch.

    Mark

    >>> Thomas.Rupp@ILLWERKE.AT 03/30/05 11:28 am >>>

    Hi,

    long time ago I had the same problem and I solved it after hours and hours of reading and playing around.
    The following text is from our docu - I hope it has been well documented!

    We do the following to change the "displayname" (the name you see in outlook in the "from" column):
    * change /etc/genericstable.txt
      We have the following entries in this file:

      userid mailuser@maildomain
      userid@hostname mailuser@maildomain
      userid@hostname.domain mailuser@maildomain

    * makemap hash genericstable < genericstable.txt
    * Edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
      Change Line
       #Kgenerics
      to
       Kgenerics hash /etc/genericstable
      Remove all comments (#) from the lines between label "handle generics database" and "End of generics table specific rules"
    * Inform sendmail about this changes: refresh -s sendmail

    To change the sender in the Envelope (the address that is used when you press the "reply" button)
    we set the senders address with "-f sender" in sendmail.

    HTH
    Thomas Rupp

    -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
    Von: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] Im Auftrag von Mark Schlechte
    Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. März 2005 18:43
    An: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Betreff: sendmail masqerading

    I'll apologize in advance for the sendmail question.
    I've set my DM value in the sendmail.cf file and I'm now able to get the domain_name I want in my outgoing emails.
    The next part I want to change is the userid. Is that possible?
    This is just for sending confirmation emails and the userid that generates the emails is not what we want in the 'from' field.

    I'm looking at a "Virtual Hosting with Sendmail" guide. Seems to be some reference to a genericstable etc.

    Has anyone done this or have any feedback.

    I'll look for a sendmail newsgroup if needed.

    Mark

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