Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 16:03:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: "'Ghulam Dastgir'" <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DNS/Sendmail problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908121602180.29274-100000@adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105B7F@site2s1>
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Yeah, if you dont set a domain in your email program, itll default to user@hostname, or at least pine does. Go into setup,config to edit it. Bri On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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