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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:08:48 +0930
From:      Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "From" aliases using mail and sendmail
Message-ID:  <200404261408.48914.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040425145545.GA64402@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <200404260013.05551.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <20040425145545.GA64402@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Monday 26 April 2004 00:25, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:13:05AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > I really need something like sendmail aliases but
> > operating on outgoing 'from' addresses rather than
> > incoming 'to' addresses.
>
> That's precisely what genericstable is for.  You'll need aliases or
> virtusertable entries as well, to translate the name back to the UID
> when people send replies to that address.
>

After seeming to lose masquerading entirely I now semm to have it 
working.

As far as translation of replies goes, this is not really a problem
here as I retrieve mail from my ISP via POP and fetchmail which stuffs
it directly into the 'malcolm' mailbox.

Thank you Matthew

Malcolm

 



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