From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 3: 8: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AACF414DB4 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 03:08:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA04096; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 03:27:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 03:27:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Marc Dodsworth Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail Question In-Reply-To: <001c01bf13c7$92b02420$86a50ccb@marcdods> 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 On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Marc Dodsworth wrote: > Hi > > Got a little problem with Sendmail 8.9.3/ > > A client of mine is using on an e-mail/gateway system with out major > problems. Since the installation was done, the domain name has been changed > (the names have been changed to protect the innocent :-) from xx.com.au to > yy.com.au. > > Any mail coming out from the system now shows as being from > username@xx.com.au when it should come from username@yy.com.au. Sendmail.cf > has been changed appropiate as has all other relevant system entries. The > maillog records mail as coming from yy.com.au so I'm a bit stumped. > > Thankx for your help What mailer is he using? It's possible that it has recorded the old hostname somewhere in its configuration files and is still using it. For instance pine can be set to lie about the hostname in the email (mail.wintelcom.net -> wintelcom.net). -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message