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Thomas Beutler wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm a total stranger to the Unix world... too long have I dwelled in the
> Windows area, and now I'm searching
> for new horizons and worlds to explore... the Unix world. I looked around
> and found FreeBSD interesting
> enough to install... and here I am with a strange problem:
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 5.0-Release and got the system running. So far - so
> good.
> Second task: Install bind and get the DNS running. So far - so good - at
> least I think so.
> 
> Third task was to get my email work... and now the problems begins.
> 
> I own the domain beutler.se, and my computers name is visthusboden.
> The server accepts incoming mail all right - no problems there... BUT...
> ...whatever I do, all outgoing mail get the address
> user@visthusboden.beutler.se instead of user@beutler.se
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

You didn't visit http://www.postfix.org/ :)

Without wishing to start a flame war, if you are just starting out 
with smtp on Unix, I would recommend skipping Sendmail using Postfix 
instead. Having used both (sendmail for years, postfix for months), I 
wouldn't want to go back to Sendmail even if you paid me. Postfix is a 
joy to use. I don't think anyone will say that about sendmail.

And the configuration files are human-readable.

David