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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:01:55 +0100
From:      Anthony Barlow <tony@mail.warp.co.uk>
To:        Sonya and Jeffrey Metcalf <metcalf@snet.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Quest? -- Changing "From:" field from sent mail
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.19970420120155.0068f984@mail.warp.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <33594FCB.BAC@snet.net>

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At 19:05 19-04-97 -0400, Sonya and Jeffrey Metcalf wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I would like to use the standard mail command under FreeBSD to send 
>mail and then use popclient to retrieve e-mail from my ISP's POP3
>server.  Popclient works great.  However, when I send mail from the
>command line, the return address is listed (as I understand it should)
>as the hostname I configured under sysconfig.  This is a fabricated
>hostname and my ISP won't recognize it.  Hence the mail I send cannot
>be properly responded to by my recipients.  So my question is, can
>I configure sendmail in some way that it always lists the response
>address of all the mail from all my users as "metcalf@snet.net"
>rather than "jeff@dane.snet.net" or "sonya@dane.snet.net", etc.?
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.

Have a look in /etc/sendmail.cf and find the masquarade as field and enter
snet.net.

Regards,
Anthony
Regards,
Anthony

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