From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 24 14:55:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA26643 for current-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA26629 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:55:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA18282; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:50:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199707242150.OAA18282@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: (over)zealous mail bouncing To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:50:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: j_mini@efn.org, ahd@kew.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tom" at Jul 24, 97 10:11:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > NOOOO, not the hostname, the envelope sender address. They are > different. You are missing the point. > > This problem is completely solvable, with what you have now. You just > need to make a config change to your mail system. Specifically, if you hand-hack your sendmail.cf like I do, add the lines: Cwlocalhost efn.org DMefn.org At the appropriate places, and life will be beautiful for you until someone starts checking your source IP address, if you are not connecting through a "smarter host". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.