From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 14:31:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A010014D6D for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:30:46 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105B7F@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Ghulam Dastgir' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DNS/Sendmail problems Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:33:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's all nice, assuming that it is actually set to masquerade properly. The problem is probably due to your mailer not your sendmail, although sendmail could be configured to re-write your outgoing headers. Check the sendmail faq. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Ghulam Dastgir [SMTP:banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 1:09 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: DNS/Sendmail problems > > Funny one this. > > There I am happily sending and receiving email then one day all of a > sudden > I can't send email. The problem, my ISP's mail server complains that it > doesn't recognise the domain being given when I send my email out. > > Apparently sendmail says my full email name is: > banta@voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk, I know this is nonsense because > voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk is the hostname of my FBSD box (shortname > voyager) and my domain is ghulam.force9.co.uk. > So why is sendmail doing this? > > I've checked my /etc/sendmail.cf file and made sure that I am masquerading > as my proper domain name i.e. ghulam.force9.co.uk. Because sendmail by > default would otherwise use the full name of the local system - > voyager.ghulam.force9.co.uk. > > So despite me masquerading sendmail still seems to revert to the system > name. > > I've even set that thing in /etc/sendmail.cf (whose name I forget) that > forces sendmail to use the proper domain name - but no luck. > By the way, I've checked my DNS files and they're all OK. > > Whad d'ya reckon cowboys? > > Cheers, > > Ghulam > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message