From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 4 15:02:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA26879 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 15:02:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA26873; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 15:02:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199608042202.PAA26873@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mail To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 15:02:28 -0700 (PDT) Cc: tcg@ime.net, frankd@yoda.fdt.net, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199608042055.WAA14874@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Aug 4, 96 10:55:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Murray wrote: > > Gary Chrysler wrote: > > > It will prompt you for your password, query the mail server and drop all > > > your mail in your system mail folder. You can also run it from cron but > > > you must use -p which will show up in a ps listing. You might > > > not want to do this for security reasons. I do it on my home machine so I > > > don't have to worry about someone seeing my password. Hope this helps. > > > > > > > How does outgoing mail get addressed, I tried this (not very hard) > > and my outgoing mail gave my address from my internal net, I need > > it to match my account with my ISP, As if I had sent it from my ISP. > > The easiest way is to cheat with your mailer (PINE/ELM/MH/Whatever), > and just set your from address there. > > Harder work would be to convice sendmail to do it for you. Look at > the M4 macros in its source directort for some clues. the "harder way" (??) is to set "DMdomain.my.mail.comes.from" in /etc/sendmail.cf on each machine that sends mail its the masquerade option that i s described in the bat book (oreilly senmdail) p. 747 jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB