From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 18 11:10:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.svr.pol.co.uk (mail11.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5108237B491 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:10:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from modem-157.potassium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.18.157] helo=omega.my.domain) by mail11.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 14UZ2J-00054w-00; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:58:20 +0000 Received: from freeloader.freeserve.co.uk (alpha.my.domain [192.168.0.2]) by omega.my.domain (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1IJ9lF00555; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 19:09:47 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk) Message-ID: <3A901DFB.F7EF77EA@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 19:09:47 +0000 From: ian j hart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail and Identd References: <005701c099d4$eab634e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > What about installing IMP or other webinterface and forcing the > students that aren't savvy enough to know how to use their > mail client properly to use that instead? This allows you to > centralize all administration on the mail clients to in effect > the central mailserver, and in addition allows the students to > check mail from any browser. > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [snip original message] Thanks for your reply, but... :) I only installed Internet access and mail just before Xmas. We've just spent a half-term getting (1500) user accounts setup. I would not be a very popular guy if I changed track at this point. The problem is not with 'savvy'. It's a _feature_. You log on and send some mail. If the network drive with your profile is not available you get the default user settings. (No-one checks account details every time they mail). The mail goes out with a random users return address. Sendmail only checks the hostname, which is correct (and masqueraded anyway). The only clue that this is happening is when you read mail and the prompted account name is not your own. God bless Bill Gates. -- ian j hart ICT Technician. Cardinal Newman School. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message