From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 11:45:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFA01512A for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 11:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id OAA29429; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:45:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199905171845.OAA29429@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: IP Masq breaks sendmail In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "May 17, 99 11:34:51 am" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:45:47 -0400 (EDT) Cc: drwho@xnet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote, > On Wed, 12 May 1999, drwho wrote: > > > FreeBSD 3.1-Stable with internal net addr 192.168.16.1 on interface xl0. > > This machine connects to the net with a static IP/hostname through pppd > > on interface ppp0. I am using natd to handle masquerading/aliasing here. > > All seems to be OK (for the most part) until I try to send mail. > > > > Since my local net does not have a registered domain name/IP addr, remote > > mailers often reject mail coming from my site. What I need to do is > > "alias" my outgoing mail (in other words, any mail NOT intended for the > > local network) to appear to come from my ISP assigned address and hostname. > > You should consult www.sendmail.org on this, they should have gotten > around this by now. Does your ISP provide SMTP services for you? I would expect they do. Perhaps the easiest thing is to relay all of your mail through a mail gateway of theirs. How are you collecting your mail right now? Can you basically send mail back through that(those) host(s)? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message