Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:22:18 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> Cc: 'Jerry McAllister' <jerrymc@msu.edu>, 'Oliver Peter' <hoschi@mouhaha.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs... Message-ID: <20070516162217.GB35129@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <023c01c7978a$cd64e110$6400a8c0@msdi.local> References: <00a401c7970d$cf443030$6400a8c0@msdi.local> <20070515212603.GD27529@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> <20070515213815.GA45661@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070516071755.GB33559@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> <023c01c7978a$cd64e110$6400a8c0@msdi.local>
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On 2007-05-16 03:21, Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Peter [mailto:hoschi@mouhaha.de]
> Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18
> To: Jerry McAllister
> Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...
>
> > Look in the file /etc/mail/aliases
> > >
> > > You can alias root to go to your favorite address.
> > > Don't forget to run newaliases(1) after editing the file.
> > >
> > > Of course, doing this will mean that all mail to root will
> > > go to you.
> >
> > Hhm. I thought the problem was that you would like to change the From:
> > of those e-mails not the To: ?
>
> Exactly... I receive the emails since I correctly configured my aliases to
> redirect all mails externally...
>
> The problem I have is with the from...
>
> Someone told me to change the hostname in rc.conf, that won't work since I
> have 4 machines:
>
> Machine1.mydomain.com
> Machine2.mydomain.com
> Machine3.mydomain.com
> Machine4.mydomain.com
>
> I want the mail from to be
> root@mydomain.com not root@localhost.mydomain.com
You have to enable 'masquerading' and (optionally) `genericstable' for
this sort of email address rewriting to work.
Here's a commented/example sendmail.mc snippet for that:
dnl Address masquerading.
dnl
dnl Making sure that all email that passes through my desktop's
dnl Sendmail installation is masqueraded as coming from
dnl `kobe.laptop', even if its original address is something
dnl slightly different (i.e. `ftp.laptop' or `mail.laptop'), is ok
dnl here. It ensures that address rewriting and translation through
dnl `genericstable' will also work for all `*.laptop' host names.
dnl
dnl To make sure that remote hosts don't get a MAIL FROM address
dnl from a hostname that doesn't resolve, envelope addresses are
dnl masqueraded here too, and then get rewritten by `genericstable'
dnl to real-world addresses.
dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(`kobe.laptop')
FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain')
FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')
dnl Rewriting the envelope-from address of all outgoing messages
dnl through a `genericstable' lookup ensures that envelope-from
dnl addresses seen by relay hosts are real, i.e. have an address
dnl of `keramida@ceid.upatras.gr' instead of the default
dnl envelope-from of `keramida@kobe.laptop' that Sendmail would use.
dnl
dnl This is required some times, to avoid getting bounces for
dnl messages from ISP mail relays that are misconfigured or are too
dnl strict about what can appear in a MAIL FROM command.
dnl
FEATURE(`genericstable', `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')
GENERICS_DOMAIN(`kobe.laptop')
FEATURE(`generics_entire_domain')
Here `kobe.laptop' is my laptop's hostname, and I have enabled address
rewriting for some local email addresses by:
% cat /etc/mail/genericstable
#
# Address rewriting of outgoing email messages.
#
keramida@localhost keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
keramida@localhost.laptop keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
keramida@kobe keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
keramida@kobe.laptop keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
root@localhost keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
root@localhost.laptop keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
root@kobe keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
root@kobe.laptop keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
%
You will have to use a similar setup to change the envelope-from and
header-from address of the outgoing messages your mail server sends.
- Giorgos
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