From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 14: 3:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DEF37B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds84-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.84] with ESMTP id XAA27558 (8.8.5/1.13); Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:03:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01350; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:03:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:03:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Rover Wanderer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail, sender name In-Reply-To: <200009221705.DAA01637@crosswinds.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The FreeBSD 3.2 (I cannot speak for the newer releases) faq has a section how to generate a suitable sendmail.cf file for a dial-up-only connection. I had to install the sendmail source from the "contrib" source package. Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Rover Wanderer wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to set up my email about 2 weeks. I'm using > fetchmail to access pop3, but have troubles in smtp > sending. My address does not correctly appears in message > header. I investigated the $j macro in sendmail.conf > and domain is substituted, but name before @ depends > on username which is logged in. Can I use aliases > for such substitution ? Or may be I can write a rule > somewhere in sendmail.cf ? > > Arseny Slobodjuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message