Re: tlug: cheating sendmail

[Tetsuji Rai <tetsuji@example.com>]

Thanks for your reply.   Now it seems to work.....

-Tetsuji Rai

> On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:51:24AM +0900, Tetsuji Rai wrote:
> 
> >   I am trying to cheat sendmail and need hints.   What I want to do is that 
> > the From field of email becomes "tetsuji@example.com" even the email is 
> > sent by usual mail or mh.   Now I cheat by setting hostname to 
> > MailAndNews.com, but it causes problems in samba.  My computer is connected to 
> > internet via ppp, so the real site name is not determined when it is not 
> > connected to Internet.  Any hints?
> 
> In the sendmail sources, the relevant doc you need is cf/README.
> Search for "envelope"; what you want to do is spoof the envelope
> on mail coming out of your sendmail daemon.  The function in
> the m4 configuration macros is MASQUERADE_ENVELOPE() or something
> like that.
> 
> Good luck,
> -- 
> -x80
> Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
> Faculty of Law, Nagoya Univ () email: bennett@example.com
> Tel: +81[(0)52]789-2239     () WWW:   http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~bennett/
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