Re: tlug: cheating sendmail

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

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,
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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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