Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:36:26 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: David Landgren <david@landgren.net> Cc: Thomas Beutler <storugglan@telia.com> Subject: Re: Need help with a strange mail/domain problem! Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0307071433120.6413-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3F097117.5030200@landgren.net>
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, David Landgren wrote: > 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/ :) That aside, you need to tell your mailer what domain to slap on the end of unqualified mailing addresses. I think you want to add these two lines to your sendmail.mc then regerate the .cf: MASQUERADE_AS(`beutler.se') FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') ... but I'm sure sendmail gurus will step in to correct me. It's been a while, here, too: I tend to use exim these days, mainly for the reason given by David (that the configuration files are somewhat more straightforward). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Theoremhood is positively decidable. It just takes time at least exponential in the length of the proof.
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