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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "maillist host lookups" from Abc Xyz << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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