Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 03:38:38 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> To: Abc Xyz <abc@anchorageinternet.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: maillist host lookups Message-ID: <20020907103838.GF76893@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <200209071025.g87APMHU052229@anchorageinternet.org> References: <200209071025.g87APMHU052229@anchorageinternet.org>
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have your gateway relay the mail from the internal network IP.
-Adam
>> (09.07.2002 @ 0325 PST): Abc Xyz said, in 1.4K: <<
> this is a problem plaguing me for years - 3 or so.
> i am on a network with a private IP - an ethernet
> with a freebsd gateway using ppp -ddial -nat.
> it is important that the private IP MTA be used so
> mail logs stay on the corresponding machines from
> which they are sent.
>
> for years, i could never mail FBSD maillists, since they
> choose to create hardship for anyone with a private IP
> in order to block spammers using private IP's, an
> argument which i do not buy, but i digress.
>
> i thought i found a solution by editing sendmail.cf
> as follows:
>
> DjMYGATEWAYSHOSTNAME.ORG
>
> this did work for mailing a FBSD maillist,
> forcing sendmail to provide the gateway as
> the origin of the mail, but then i realized
> that it crashed internal network mail.
>
> for example, with such a sendmail.cf, if i am
> on a machine with a private IP behind the gateway,
> and i mail user@MYGATEWAYSHOSTNAME.ORG, sendmail
> looks for "user" on my own machine, instead of
> the gateway.
>
> i am sure i am not the only one with this problem,
> ie, using sendmail from a machine on a private IP network
> behind a gateway. i think it's reasonable to imagine that
> most users using FBSD as a gateway have such a setup, at
> home or at work.
>
> what is the proper solution to this problem?
> i have attempted to find out over the years,
> but have never recieved a simple and direct
> solution/answer.
>
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>> end of "maillist host lookups" from Abc Xyz <<
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